Summary

Tune into MedCity Pivot Podcast with host Arundhati Parmar as three healthcare tech leaders—Serge Perras, Ton Roelandse, and Bertil Chappuis—decode AI's true potential in healthcare. Explore its role in enhancing efficiency and busting myths about AI supremacy.

Episode Highlights

00:00:19 - The high bar for AI safety in healthcare.

00:01:29 - AI's current hype and exaggerated promises.

00:03:57 - Misconceptions about AI replacing healthcare roles.

00:05:51 - Meaningful AI use cases: Prior authorization automation.

00:06:52 - AI in triage and its capacity enhancements.

00:08:10 - AI's role in modernizing healthcare infrastructure.

00:10:46 - Clarifying AI vs. RPA in tech solutions.

00:13:30 - Importance of governance and guardrails in AI.

00:16:38 - Humanizing healthcare through AI.

00:18:27 - AI's potential and challenges in medical coding.

00:21:31 - AI's impact on job roles and productivity boosts.

00:24:25 - Use of AI in personal life for everyday tasks.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

Keywords

• Artificial Intelligence

• Healthcare Innovation

• AI Applications

• Healthcare Safety

• Technology Hype

• Serge Perras

• Abarca Health

• Ton Roelandse

• Trexin Consulting

• Bertil Chappuis

• Xtillion

• Machine Learning

• Generative Media

• Super Agents

• Risk and Reliability

• Clinical Prediction Models

• Automation Bias

• Prior Authorization Process

• Agentic Systems

• Healthcare Infrastructure

• Modernization

• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

• Data Quality

• Governance and Guardrails

• Human vs AI Roles

• Healthcare Workforce Transition

• AI Augmentation

• Patient Care

• Medical Coding

• Electronic Health Records (EHR)

• AI Ethics

• Data Fragmentation

• AI Engineering

• Healthcare Economics

• AI's Net New Jobs

• AI Sounding Board

During the episode, MedCity News Associate Editor Katie Adams interviews Dr. Hamad Husainy, chief medical officer at PointClickCare, and Dr. Barbara Bond, a physician at Sutter Health, about how AI can help improve patient outcomes in the emergency department.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

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I interviewed Adriana Ramirez and Matt Gibbs, and we spoke about how a new approach to pharmacy benefits management.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

• Connect with Adriana Ramirez and Matt Gibbs

• hans.amalia@abarcahealth.com

• matt.gibbs@lark.com

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I am interviewing Dr. Iftach Dolev, co-founder and CEO of QuantalX a neurodiagnostics company that has just received FDA clearance for its device.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

• Connect with Dr. Iftach Dolev

• iftach@quantalx.com

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This episode was sponsored by Quantum Health. Katie Adams, associate editor at MedCity News, interviewed Shannon Skaggs, chief AI officer at Quantum Health, about how AI is reshaping the care navigation and benefits guidance world.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

• Connect with Shannon Skaggs

• https://quantum-health.com/shannon-skaggs/

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonskaggs/?skipRedirect=true

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I interviewed Dr. Rowland Illing, Chief Medical Officer of AWS (Amazon Web Services) about its Health Data Lake and how those data are being powered into innovations transforming healthcare.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

• Connect with Rowland Illing

• danielle.rowe@longjump.agency

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I interviewed two healthcare executives and we talked about the importance of price transparency in pharmacy benefits management to make life easier for patients taking prescription medications and for providers who use e-prescribing.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

• Connect with Javier Gonzalez

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgonzalezpharmd/

• Connect with Otto Sipe

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ottosipe/

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I interviewed Jeremy Delinsky, CEO of Smarter Technologies, about AI-driven clinical documentation improvement and RCM revenue cycle management.

Episode Resources

• Connect with Arundhati Parmar

• aparmar@medcitynews.com

• https://twitter.com/aparmarbb?lang=en

• https://medcitynews.com/

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