Forget the Search for a Single AI ROI Number, Say Akhter and Chou — Build Coalitions, Scale What Works
In this episode, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s SVP, Chief Digital and Information Officer Shaqib Octor and veteran health‑IT executive David Chow discuss how health systems are grappling with defining AI ROI. They argue that ROI isn’t just a dollar figure—it includes clinician time saved, staff satisfaction, and eventually patient outcomes, though the latter remains nascent in pediatrics. Both stress the importance of building cross‑functional coalitions (CFO, COO, CMO) to sponsor AI initiatives and moving beyond pilots by securing broad stakeholder buy‑in, rather than relying on isolated successes.
Why Price Transparency Took a Decade to Crack | Heather Fernandez, Solv
In this episode, Heather Fernandez, CEO of Solve, discusses the decade‑long struggle to achieve price transparency in U.S. healthcare and how her company is finally cracking the "how much will it cost me?" question using AI-driven ClearPay. She traces her...
Anthropic + Gates Give $200M to Healthcare | Cerebras IPO Doubles
The episode covers several major AI developments: the Gates Foundation and Anthropic each pledged $200 million over four years to deploy Claude in global health, education, life‑sciences and economic mobility, focusing on low‑resource regions; Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185...
How Your Body Data Could Reshape Sectors
In this episode, Morgan Stanley health‑care analyst Erin Wright discusses the rise of the self‑directed patient, highlighting how direct‑to‑consumer lab tests and wearables are shifting health care from reactive treatment to proactive prevention. She notes that U.S. chronic disease costs...
Diagnosing the Future: Proteins, Biosensors and Fundamental Science with Prof. Eleonora Macchia
In this episode, Prof. Eleonora Macchia discusses how fundamental research on protein interactions can be turned into ultra‑sensitive biosensors for early disease detection, highlighting her ERC project that moved from studying topological transitions of proteins to a clinical trial for pancreatic...
University of Utah Health’s Kawamoto Says Workbench Approach Scales Clinical AI Across the Enterprise
Dr. Ken Kawamoto, University of Utah Health’s Chief Health AI Transformation Officer, discusses how his team is scaling clinical AI across the enterprise using a standards‑based AI Workbench that plugs into the Epic EHR. He explains the evolution of his...
Why Healthcare Costs Keep Climbing
In this brief episode, Dr. Pearl discusses how generative AI can empower patients and clinicians by providing instant, personalized health insights before a doctor's visit, illustrated with a real‑world example of a skier diagnosing a rotator cuff tear via ChatGPT....
The AI Paradox: Why LLMs in Healthcare Actually Require More Structured Data, Not Less | Ewout Kramer & Ward Weistra...
In this episode, Awad Kramer and Ward Weistra of Firely discuss the origins and evolution of FHIR Dev Days, a community‑driven conference that educates developers on implementing the FHIR standard. They highlight how FHIR has become the backbone of health‑IT...
Building Maven Clinic when No One Believed with CEO Kate Ryder
In this episode of Lifers, CEO Kate Ryder discusses the evolution of Maven Clinic, the first unicorn in women's health, focusing on the challenges of scaling from $200M to $500M in revenue and aligning every part of the business. She...
Mass General Brigham’s Sriraman Says SaaS Outages Expose Hidden Cloud Dependencies
In this episode of the Health System CIO Show, Mass General Brigham CTO Sri Sriraman discusses the hidden dependencies of SaaS applications on public cloud infrastructures, highlighting recent multi‑region outages that exposed a lack of transparency around where vendors host...
The Cyborgs Commeth - EP 69 Connor Glass
In this episode, host Ashley Vance talks with Connor Glass, co‑founder and CEO of Phantom Neuro, about the company’s sub‑dermal neural interface that lets amputees control prosthetic limbs using muscle‑derived electrical signals—offering a less invasive alternative to brain‑computer interfaces like...
WATCH NOW: Prior Authorization: Care, Delayed | EP 3
In this episode of Healthcare Uncovered, the hosts examine the burdens of prior authorization on patients and clinicians, featuring Dr. Wendy Dean, co‑founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, and former health‑system executive Dr. Seth Glickman. They discuss how prior‑auth requirements...
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a Pre-1930s LLM
In this episode of Hard Fork, hosts Kevin Roos and Casey Noon dissect OpenAI’s strategic overhaul, including a revised Microsoft partnership that removes the AGI revenue clause, a $50 billion investment and model‑hosting deal with Amazon’s Bedrock, and a shift away...
Will AI Help You Live 50 More Years? Immunologist Derya Unutmaz Weighs In
In this episode, NIH‑funded immunologist Derya Unutmaz discusses his bold predictions that AI will usher in a "biosingularity"—a convergence of artificial intelligence and biotechnology that could extend human lifespan by decades and automate half of white‑collar work within the next...
The Machine Ethics Podcast: Organoid Computing with Dr Ewelina Kurtys
In this episode, host discusses organoid-based biocomputing with neuroscientist‑turned‑entrepreneur Dr. Ewelina Kurtys, who advises the Swiss startup Final Spark. They explain how cultured cortical organoids of ~10,000 neurons are wired to electrodes to send and read electrical signals, highlighting the...