Practical AI in Healthcare

S2E1 - Raihan Faroqui, MD: The Doctor at the Front Desk, AI on the Line

Raihan Faroqui trained in internal medicine and then went to work on the front desk. As VP of partnerships at Confido Health, he puts AI agents on the phone lines of what

S1, E50 - Jeremy Harper: The Broken Adoption Curve, Ambient Scribes Nobody Can Audit, and the Knowledge We Keep Paying For and Deleting

Every technology healthcare has adopted moved through the same curve: a bleeding-edge few went first and documented what broke, and the majority followed. Large language

S1, E52 - Reflections #8: Year in Review

Steve and Leon close Season 1 by looking back across all fifty-two episodes. They start with what surprised them (how fast conservative institutions adopted, and how slow

S1, E51 - Reflections #7: When the Machine Is Almost Always Right, Who Is Still Thinking?

In their seventh Reflections episode, and their fifty-first overall, Steve and Leon look back across six conversations: Mika Newton on interoperability that finally start

S1, E49 - Chris Dymek: Healthcare AI Literacy

Chris Dymek came to healthcare informatics by way of philosophy, and she still thinks like a philosopher: the first question is what we actually mean. As Director of Digi

S1, E48 - Renee Deehan: Trustworthy AI for Consumer Health

The internet is full of wellness advice built on a single cherry-picked study. Renee Deehan, a molecular and cell biologist who leads science and AI at InsideTracker, spe

S1, E47 - Vimla Patel: Cognitive Science of Clinical Reasoning

Dr. Vimla Patel has spent four decades studying how physicians actually reason, and what happens when technology ignores it. In this episode, she explains the difference

S1, E46 - Peter Embi: The Doctor Who Diagnosed Himself

Peter Embi has spent his career at the intersection of medicine and informatics: coining the term "algorithmovigilance," serving as the nation's first Chief Research Info

S1, E45 - Mika Newton, xCures: Intelligent Interoperability

Interoperability has been healthcare's twenty-year broken promise, but something genuinely changed. Mika Newton, CEO of xCures, explains how provider data exchange jumped

S1, E44 - Reflections #6: After Five Episodes, What Still Has to Be Human?

In their sixth Reflections episode, Steve and Leon look back across five conversations (Sarah Rossetti, Jeff Smith of ONC, Hugo Campos, Fred Bennett, and Zak Kohane) and

S1, E43 - Isaac "Zak" Kohane, MD, PhD (Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School; founding Editor-in-Chief, NEJM AI)

A quiet war is underway over who controls your health data in the age of AI, and the front-runners aren't the usual suspects. Dr. Isaac "Zak" Kohane, Chair of Biomedical

S1, E42 - Live with Fred Bennett, Founder & CEO, PatientTalker

For its first-ever live episode, recorded before an audience at New York Tech Week, Practical AI in Healthcare sits down with Fred Bennett, founder and CEO of PatientTalk

S1, E41 - Hugo Campos: Patient-Directed AI

Patient advocate Hugo Campos spent more than a decade fighting for access to the data from his own implanted defibrillator. When the system wouldn't budge, he stopped try

S1, E40 - Jeff Smith — AI Regulation, Transparency & Innovation from the Government Perspective

What happens when the rules for getting AI into clinical care are written by someone who has spent his career inside both the advocacy world and the government? In this e

S1, E39 - Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD: Nursing Informatics & the CONCERN Early Warning System

On National Nurses Day, Practical AI in Healthcare welcomes its first nurse: Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD, of Columbia University. Her CONCERN early warning system takes an un

S1, E38 - Reflections 5: How Specialized Does AI Have to Be to Actually Work?

In their fifth Reflections episode, Steve and Leon look back across six conversations (Matt Truppo at Sanofi, Ted Shortliffe, Barry Chaiken, David Hidalgo-Gato, and Danny

S1, E37 - Danny van Leeuwen, MPH, RN, Health Hats: Patient's POV on AI Tools

Danny van Leeuwen is a nurse of 50 years, a multiple sclerosis patient, host of the Health Hats podcast, and a serial member of national outcomes panels at CMS, AHRQ, PCO

S1, E36 - David Hidalgo-Gato, Founder & CEO, Cleo Health: Going a Mile Deep on Emergency Medicine — Specialization, Design Partnerships, and the Acute Care OS

David Hidalgo-Gato is the founder and CEO of Cleo Health. While more than 100 competitors were building generic ambient AI scribes, David's team chose emergency medicine

S1, E35 - Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH: Physician-as-Patient Perspective on AI in Healthcare

When physician Barry Chaiken was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his clinical training gave way to fear. It took a friend asking, "What are you doing?" to snap him back i

S1, E34 - Matt Truppo, PhD, Part 2: AI-Driven Drug Development at Sanofi: Clinical Trials, Regulatory, and Personal AI

In Part 2 of our conversation with Matt Truppo, Global Head of Research Platforms and Computational R&D at Sanofi, we move from discovery to development, where the real s