Episodes

Bridging medical and dental care with AI is no longer optional; it is essential for the future of patient care and clinician support. In this episode, Dr. Kathryn Alderman, CEO and founder of Intelligent Care Alliance, shares how her background in biological and functional dentistry led her to challenge the silos separating dental, medical, mental health, and pharmacy care. She explains how AI can provide 360-degree support for clinicians by streamlining workflows, improving patient outcomes,...

Ethical AI in healthcare will only matter if it delivers real clinical and financial outcomes, not hype or talk. In this episode, sponsored by Outcomes Rocket and Censinet, Sherri Douville, a healthcare AI leader and CEO of Medigram, discusses the urgent need to make AI work for healthcare as hospitals face financial strain, Medicaid pressure, and rising administrative burdens. She explains why trust, safety, and standards are foundational to the responsible deployment of AI and why collabora...

What does it really take to make AI work on the front lines of healthcare? In this episode, Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, Vice President of Innovation at Inflect Health and Vituity, discusses how a physician-led innovation engine transforms real clinical frustrations into scalable healthcare technology. He explains how Vituity’s fully democratic partnership model and Inflect Health’s venture, studio, and advisory arms enable rapid testing and deployment across hundreds of hospitals. Joshua shares les...

This episode of the AI Med 25 Insights series is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket and Censinet. AI is advancing rapidly in healthcare, but what happens behind the scenes when a system attempts to adopt it responsibly? In this episode, Anahi Santiago, Chief Information Security Officer at ChristianaCare, shares how a tech-forward health system is embracing AI across clinical workflows, operations, and cybersecurity. She explains the governance rubric they’ve created to assess every new use...

Recognizing that life has an expiration date makes both medicine and risk-taking more meaningful, and that insight runs through this entire conversation. In this episode, Dr. Orvil Martinez, CEO of the Advanced Medical Research Center, and Dr. Felix Rivera, owner of US Neurology Consulting, discuss how their Puerto Rican roots, love of adventure, and passion for technology influence their medical practice and vision for the future of healthcare. They share wild stories of skydiving from airpl...

Interoperability is the missing foundation for AI in healthcare because without real-time, high-quality data, even the best models can’t mature. In this episode, Jose Macion, founder and CEO of GenOp Health, discusses his vision for a “healthcare internet” built on blockchain, enabling secure, real-time data exchange among hospitals, providers, and payers. He explains why blockchain can help track transactions, enhance security, and facilitate scalable data sharing as networks expand. He also...

This episode of the AI Med 25 Insights series is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket and Censinet. Trustworthy AI-enabled healthcare depends on standards that harden identity, privacy, safety, and security across devices, data, and institutions. In this episode, Florence Hudson, Executive Director at Columbia University, discusses using data and AI “for good” through federally funded innovation work. She explains how she led the development of IEEE’s TIPS standard for clinical IoT, focusing ...

AI security is no longer optional; it's the foundation that determines whether innovation in healthcare will thrive or fail. In this episode, Steve Wilson, Chief AI & Product Officer for Exabeam and author, discusses the hidden vulnerabilities inside modern AI systems, why traditional software assumptions break down, and how healthcare must rethink safety, trust, and security from the ground up. He explains the risks of prompt injection and indirect prompt injection, highlights the fragile na...

Advances in AI are transforming both large-scale population analytics and ultra-precise, small-data insights that can guide individualized treatment. In this episode, Yves Lussier, Chair of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Medicine, discusses the deep legacy of innovation behind modern electronic health records, the evolution of biomedical informatics, and the rise of AI techniques that extract meaning from both massive and minimal datasets. He explains how the “blessing of dimensional...

What happens when AI meets real-world healthcare challenges? In this episode, Kali Ihde, Director of Northwestern Medicine's Ventures and Innovation, discusses how AI is being practically applied to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. She explains the importance of moving past hype, piloting AI solutions safely, and integrating them into workflows with input from clinicians and administrators. Kali highlights the growing AI literacy among healthcare professionals and shares how a...

Bold ideas often look risky until they reshape an entire field. In this episode, Dr. Harvey Castro, Chief AI Officer for Phantom Space and prolific healthcare innovator, discusses his rapid leap into AI after discovering ChatGPT, how his first book on AI in healthcare went viral, and how that moment catapulted him onto global stages, including advising the Ministry of Health in Singapore. He shares earlier entrepreneurial breakthroughs like building top-ranked medical apps, creating freestand...

What if hospitals could reduce hours of administrative work to minutes, without ever compromising sensitive patient data? In this episode, Nicholas Lin, cofounder and CEO of Guava, explains that their company automates prior authorization for hospitals without accessing PHI or EHR data. Their AI agents handle up to 95% of time-consuming administrative tasks, like coverage checks and policy reviews, by performing automated calls and warm transfers to human specialists only when necessary. The ...

AI is reshaping radiology from image reading to clinical orchestration, and the human-plus-AI model will define the future of the field. In this episode, sponsored by Outcomes Rocket and Censinet, Lior Eshel Ansher, founder and CEO of TestDynamics, discusses how his father’s late lung cancer diagnosis pushed him to investigate radiology errors and discover that 30% of cases are misdiagnosed. He explains how burnout, staffing shortages, and exploding image volumes strain radiologists who are m...

Imagine detecting stroke and critical conditions instantly, even in the most resource-limited settings. In this episode, Junaid Kalia, Founder & CEO of SaveLife.AI, discusses how edge-based radiology AI can make lifesaving diagnostics accessible in low-resource environments worldwide. He shares how falling imaging costs and the off-patent status of stroke medications are transforming global stroke care. He explains the urgency created by massive radiologist shortages and why AI must fill the ...

What happens when clinicians have groundbreaking ideas, but no roadmap to bring them to life? In this episode, Dr. Arlen Meyers, Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology, Dentistry, and Engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health, and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, discusses how SOPE helps clinicians transform ideas into innovations that reach patients. He explains why most healthcare professionals lack formal...

AI will only build trust if we’re honest about both its potential and its risks. In this episode, Anthony Lee, executive communication coach and head of Heroic Voice Academy, discusses how AI is reshaping conferences, clinical workflows, and the craft of speaking. He contrasts the adoption of beginner-level AI in healthcare with cutting-edge innovation at events like TED AI, highlighting the urgent need for more experimentation, compelling stories, and faster learning. Anthony explains how AI...

The future of healthcare hinges on unlocking siloed data and enabling agentic, AI-driven innovation. In this episode, Doug Fridsma, CMIO at Health Universe and former federal leader in health IT, discusses the historic shift from paper to electronic records, the challenges of data consolidation, and why lazy data must be activated to improve patient care. Doug breaks down how modern agentic AI, ambient technologies, and orchestration layers can ultimately make health systems more agile, much ...

AI won’t replace clinicians, but clinicians who embrace AI might. In this episode, Hassan Bencheqroun, CEO of the Medical AI Academy, talks about what it means to become an “AI-ready doctor.” He breaks down common misconceptions among clinicians who fear AI will replace human connection. He shares real examples of AI improving care, from hospital fall-prevention tools to enhanced medical education. He also reflects on his journey from Morocco and urges innovators to take action, learn intenti...

A patient’s story is the key to better care, yet modern healthcare rarely gives people the time to tell it. In this episode, Chris Brigham, founder of Smart Medical History AI, explains how AI-driven, adaptive patient interviewing can enhance the depth and accuracy of clinical history-taking. He shares his unusual journey from IT pioneer to physician and editor, emphasizing that decades of experience reaffirmed patient history as the cornerstone of good care. Chris describes how his platform ...

Doctors are rising to reclaim healthcare from third-party profiteers. In this episode, Dr. Kianor Shah, Founder and Chair of the Global Summits Institute, talks about the “doctor-to-doctor” movement and how it’s restoring physicians to the center of healthcare. He explains how AI can level the playing field, removing unnecessary intermediaries to benefit doctors and patients. Shah shares how global summits engage leading medical and dental figures to foster collaboration and consensus on AI r...

Agentic AI is evolving fast, and it’s learning far more about us than we realize. In this episode, Robin Farmanfarmaian, co-founder and CEO at i-GENTIC AI, explores both the promise and the dangers of agentic AI, emphasizing that generative models learn human flaws as well as human knowledge. She explains how her company, i-GENTIC, helps organizations stay compliant amid rapidly evolving AI regulations and privacy requirements. Robin also warns about growing cybersecurity threats and the disr...

Healthcare is hitting an inflection point where AI is no longer a curiosity; it’s becoming the engine driving the next decade of clinical transformation. In this episode, Nilesh Bhandari, Chairman and CEO at the Advanced Health Academy, explains that this year marks a turning point in healthcare's embrace of AI, with unprecedented enthusiasm from clinicians, administrators, and even boardrooms. He notes that AI experts and clinicians are finally having productive, in-depth conversations that ...

How do you build AI that actually feels loving to the people it serves? In this episode, Dr. Apurv Gupta, Founder and Board Member of A Loving Organization, explains that the Loving Organization Consortium aims to bring more love and compassion into healthcare by improving nine interconnected systems, people, processes, culture, workflows, and especially technology, through a framework called INTEGRATE. He and Ed Gaudet discuss how “loving AI” can ease clinician burden through tools like ambi...

Thoughtful, problem-first innovation—not hype—drives real clinical impact in healthcare. In this episode, Saul Marquez and Ed Gaudet from Censinet host Dr. Jason Hill, Innovation Officer at Ochsner Health, and David Leingang, Director of Innovation Data Science at Ochsner Health, to discuss how their team uses machine learning, workflow redesign, and data-driven insights to reduce physician message burden, improve patient routing, and guide clinical programs. They explain how analyzing 2.4 mi...