Healthcare AI Pioneers

Healthcare AI Pioneers
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Healthcare AI Pioneers is a twice-monthly national podcast that provides an independent forum for discussing the latest developments, innovations, strategies, and trends that clinicians, administrators, hospitals, and health systems are implementing using healthcare-related AI. The podcast focuses on three core areas: clinician-facing AI, such as in electronic health records and for diagnosis and treatment; administrative- and operational-facing AI, such as revenue cycle management and quality improvement; and consumer-facing AI, such as ChatGPT and wearables. The podcast also includes several impactful features: bonus episodes that cover breaking news; headlines of important AI healthcare developments; and resource links to significant AI healthcare documents and articles. Podcast guests analyze major trends in healthcare AI, share data on the effectiveness of programs, initiatives, and interventions, and discuss relevant AI policy, regulatory, and legal developments. The host, Jesse Pines, is an internationally known physician, innovator, researcher, and author of almost 400 peer-reviewed publications and eight books. Subscribers to the podcast include a broad range of healthcare AI stakeholders, including clinicians, hospital and health system leaders, healthcare AI organizations, policymakers, government officials, advocacy and consumer representatives, attorneys, and consultants.

  1. 6d ago

    Advancing Acute Care and the Patient Experience with AI Voice Agents

    Jesse chats with Dr. Adrian Haimovich, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Division of Artificial Intelligence at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Dr. Smit Desai, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and leader of the Conversational Human-AI Interactions Lab (CHAI Lab). Together, they discuss the potential for AI-powered voice agents in emergency departments and other acute care settings, the challenges these tools are designed to address, why voice may offer advantages over text-based interactions, the technical architecture behind AI voice agents and how it compares with off-the-shelf solutions, the future of voice agents in acute care, the potential for patient-authored notes, and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: The OpenAI Foundation commits $100 million to an initiative aimed at using AI to expand access to advanced medical care, particularly for uninsured and underserved patients. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  2. Aug 17

    Building an Enterprise AI Strategy at Jefferson Health

    Jesse chats with Dr. Judd Hollander, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Delivery Innovation and Chief Virtual Care Officer at Jefferson Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; Dr. Bracken Babula, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Jefferson Health and Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University; and Dr. Jennifer Stephens, Enterprise Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Quality & Population Health at Jefferson Health and Enterprise Chief Medical Officer at Jefferson Medical Group. Together, they discuss measuring the impact of AI programs; AI governance and enterprise-wide implementation; reducing clinical administrative burden; ambient listening and documentation tools, including potential nursing applications; symptom checkers and agentic AI; identifying and closing gaps in care management; predictive AI, risk management, and pre-deployment testing; the role of external partnerships in AI strategy; balancing centralized governance with department-level innovation and subject-matter expertise; Jefferson Health's future vision for AI; and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: OpenEvidence and Boston Children's Hospital launch multiyear collaboration to study how clinicians' AI use at point of care influences care delivery patterns. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com. Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com. Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  3. Aug 3

    Bringing AI and Informatics Into Perioperative Care at Duke University

    Jesse chats with Hamed Zaribafzadeh, Senior Data Scientist in the Department of Surgery at Duke University, and Dr. Michael Kent, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Ambulatory Anesthesiology Division and Associate Vice Chair Perioperative Informatics in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University. Together, they discuss a recent report on healthcare AI at Duke; AI models for scheduling surgeries and allocating surgical resources; how surgeons and informatics experts can work together to better leverage AI; using AI for automating the identification of necessary documentation for surgery authorizations and how it can reduce administrative burden; what could be next for Duke in healthcare AI and LLMs; and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: United Health Group reports AI significantly trimmed medical costs in Q2. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  4. Jul 27

    Separating AI Hype from Clinical Reality with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou

    Jesse chats with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology at Stanford School of Medicine. Together, they discuss Roxana's journey into the healthcare AI world; recent research on AI performance in healthcare tasks and claims of superhuman AI performance presented as clinical vignettes; takeaways from Health AI Week at Stanford; AI challenges facing medical professionals and patients; using data analysis to guide healthcare AI forward; fears and hopes for healthcare AI in the future; and much more. Learn more about Roxana's work at www.DaneshjouLab.com. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: OpenAI moves toward making healthcare a central pillar of its business. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  5. Jul 6

    The Next Generation of Evidence-Based Clinical AI with Dr. Travis Zack

    Jesse chats with Dr. Travis Zack, Chief Medical Officer at OpenEvidence and Assistant Adjunct Professor and AI Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. Together, they discuss OpenEvidence's mission and its rapid adoption among physicians; how OpenEvidence differs from general-purpose AI platforms; Travis' background and role at OpenEvidence; the rationale behind the organization's free access model and its long-term vision; partnerships between OpenEvidence and health systems; the organization's impact on clinical decision-making, physician practice, and medical education; the future of OpenEvidence and clinical AI; and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: Rhode Island passes AI scribe opt-out law. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  6. Jun 29

    Implementing AI in Radiology and Clinical Decision-Making with MedStar Health

    Jesse chats with Dr. Raj Ratwani, Vice President of Scientific Affairs at the MedStar Health Research Institute, Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine; and Dr. Ross Filice, Chief of Imaging Informatics, Director of Research in the Department of Radiology, and Professor at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Together, they discuss MedStar Health's integration of an AI clinical decision support tool, "AI Doc," into radiology care; human factors and conditions under which clinical AI tools are likely to work; how radiology residents at Georgetown are allowed to use AI Doc; concerns surrounding deskilling in AI-assisted clinical environments; post-deployment surveillance and monitoring of AI Doc; how to build AI governance structures in healthcare settings; whether AI could eventually replace radiologists; and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: AMA Adopts Policy Pushing Back on AI Creep in Medicine. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  7. Jun 8

    Reimagining OSCE Grading and Medical Education at UT Southwestern

    Jesse chats with Dr. Thomas Dalton, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Dr. Andrew Jamieson Assistant Professor in the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Principal Investigator of Jamieson Lab. Together, they discuss objective structured clinical examinations, how UT Southwestern created a model to help solve problems with OSCEs, inter-rater reliability in the human baseline in their research data compared with benchmarks, how the resulting system was operationally deployed for real students being graded on real exams, what happens to human graders who are no longer needed for OSCE scoring, applying multimodal AI to video recordings of student physical exams, how AI assessment tools translate from medical school into graduate medical education, where AI-powered assessment could be headed, and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for clinicians. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com. Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com. Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

  8. Jun 2

    Improving Lean Methodology and Clinical Analysis at UCSF and ZSFG

    Jesse chats with Dr. Christopher (Toff) Peabody, Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Founder and Director of the UCSF Acute Care Innovation Center, and Associate Chief Medical Officer for Performance Excellence at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; and Dr. Lucas Zier, Interventional Cardiologist and Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist at ZSFG and UCSF Health. Together, they discuss the implementation of an LLM embedded in ZSFG's lean performance improvement process, how combining lean methodology with an LLM works in practice, overcoming data quality challenges with the LLM, a predictive model for readmissions for heart failure, a generative AI tool that summarizes patients' social and behavioral determinants of health, closing the gap between what a clinician intuitively knows they want from an AI tool and what they can actually articulate precisely enough for a developer to build, and much more. Jesse also reflects on this key headline: NBC News investigation reveals OpenEvidence is now used by approximately 65% of U.S. physicians. In our Resource Link segment, we list one valuable resource you might want to check out. To view this link, subscribe, or find out more information about our podcast, visit www.HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Want to be a sponsor, marketing partner, or guest, or provide feedback on the podcast? Email us at Info@HealthcareAIPioneers.com.  Music by Turning Pages from Pixabay.

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Healthcare AI Pioneers is a twice-monthly national podcast that provides an independent forum for discussing the latest developments, innovations, strategies, and trends that clinicians, administrators, hospitals, and health systems are implementing using healthcare-related AI. The podcast focuses on three core areas: clinician-facing AI, such as in electronic health records and for diagnosis and treatment; administrative- and operational-facing AI, such as revenue cycle management and quality improvement; and consumer-facing AI, such as ChatGPT and wearables. The podcast also includes several impactful features: bonus episodes that cover breaking news; headlines of important AI healthcare developments; and resource links to significant AI healthcare documents and articles. Podcast guests analyze major trends in healthcare AI, share data on the effectiveness of programs, initiatives, and interventions, and discuss relevant AI policy, regulatory, and legal developments. The host, Jesse Pines, is an internationally known physician, innovator, researcher, and author of almost 400 peer-reviewed publications and eight books. Subscribers to the podcast include a broad range of healthcare AI stakeholders, including clinicians, hospital and health system leaders, healthcare AI organizations, policymakers, government officials, advocacy and consumer representatives, attorneys, and consultants.

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  • Creator
    Healthcare AI Pioneers
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
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    Healthcare AI Pioneers

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