The Digital Patient
The Digital Patient
SeamlessMD
Stories from the frontline of Digital Patient Engagement
235: Beacon's CIDEO Dr. Stacey Johnston: Pushing Oracle to Its AI Limits, The Agent That Ordered 7,000 Colon Screenings and Caught Cancer Early, and What If You Spent More on Tech Than on Recruiting?
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Joshua Liu, MD, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Stacey Johnston, MD, MHA, CHCIO, Chief Information and Digital Execution Officer at Beacon Health System, about "Pushing Oracle to Its AI Limits, The Agent That Ordered 7,000 Colon Screenings and Caught Cancer Early, What If You Spent More on Tech Than on Recruiting, and more..."
Aug 20
50 min
234: Parkview's ACMIO Dr. Hasan Ahmad: Why Deleting EHR Alerts Is the Safest Thing You'll Do This Year, 3 Questions Every AI Tool Must Answer Before Go-Live, and Why Resistance Is Usability Feedback
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Joshua Liu, MD, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Hasan Ahmad, DO, MBA, MSc, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Parkview Health, about "Why Deleting Alerts Is the Safest Thing You'll Do This Year, Three Questions Every AI Tool Must Answer Before Go-Live, Why Clinician Resistance Is Usability Feedback and more..."
Aug 13
53 min
233: Northwestern's CMO, Pop Health Dr. Amish Desai: Making 2,500 AI Calls in 5 Days that Patients Loved,  The Scale-First Rule That Kills Pilotitus, and Why You Should Judge AI by the Alternative
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Amish Desai, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer, Population Health at Northwestern Medicine, about "Making 2,500 AI Calls in 5 Days that Patients Loved,  The Scale-First Rule That Kills Pilotitus, Why You Should Judge AI by the Alternative, and more..."
Jul 23
47 min
232: AMDIS 2026 Recap: The Clinical Informatics Conference So Good Our Own Podcast Hosts Showed Up, Moving from AI Anxiety to AI Operations, and the Uber That Nearly Escaped Us at the Spa
Josh and Alan reunite for a “solo” episode to recap their adventures at AMDIS 2026 in Ojai, CA. They dive deep on how health systems are moving from AI Anxiety to AI Ops, What the EHR Might Look in 2030, the Uber That Nearly Escaped Them at the Spa, and more...
Jul 10
45 min
231: Emory Healthcare's Dr. Zsolt Kulcsar: Why Virtual Health Needs Its Own Department, The "Doc of the Day" That Frees Clinic Space, and Why Virtual Care Is More Primed for AI Than the Exam Room
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Zsolt Kulcsar, DO, MPH, MBA, CPE, Vice President, Virtual Health at Emory Healthcare, about "Why Virtual Health Needs Its Own Department, The "Doc of the Day" That Frees Clinic Space, Why Virtual Care Is More Primed for AI Than the Exam Room, and more..."
Jun 25
1 hr
230: Wellstar’s CHIO Dr. Pranav Jain: What Ambient Rollouts Get Wrong About the Care Model, How AI Fluency Creates 10X Clinicians, and The One Clinical Skill You Cannot Automate
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Pranav Jain, MD, MBA, Chief Health Information Officer at Wellstar Health System, about "What Ambient Rollouts Get Wrong About the Care Model, How AI Fluency Creates 10X Clinicians, The One Clinical Skill You Cannot Automate, and more..."
Jun 18
53 min
229: Inova Health's CHIO Dr. Andrew Miner: 50x IT Adoption Through Physician Bonuses, The Reason Ambient's Biggest Win Isn't Time Savings, and Why Your EHR Will Soon Know Your Patients Better Than You
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Information Officer at Inova Health, about "50x'ing IT Adoption Through Physician Bonuses, The Reason Ambient's Biggest Win Isn't Time Savings, Why Your EHR Will Soon Know Your Patients Better Than You, and more..."
Jun 11
42 min
228: U of Toledo's former Enterprise CMIO Dr. Ryan Sadeghian: Don't Outsource Your AI Thinking, The Reason Clinical AI Tools Die After the Pilot, and Was Documentation Ever the Right Measure of Care?
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Ryan Sadeghian, MD, MBA, MSc, former Enterprise Chief Medical Information Officer at the University of Toledo, about why you shouldn't "Outsource Your AI Thinking, The Reason Clinical AI Tools Die After the Pilot, Why Nobody Is Auditing Whether Documentation Was Ever the Right Measure of Care, and more..."
Jun 4
46 min
227: XGM 2026: Moving from AI Anxiety to AI Operations, The Great Snack Wheelbarrow Chase, and Why Alan Dressed Up as the Tin Man
Josh and Alan reunite for a casual “solo” episode to catch up on Josh's adventures at Epic's XGM. They dive deep on how health systems are moving from AI Anxiety to AI Operations, the Great Snack Wheelbarrow Chase, Why Alan Dressed Up as the Tin Man, and more...
May 28
46 min
226: Epic's CMO Dr. Jackie Gerhart: Epic's Vision for The Intelligent Visit, Which of Epic's 100+ AI Use Cases Get the Most Adoption, and What Changes About Physician Identity in the Age of AI
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Jackie Gerhart, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Epic Systems, about "Epic's Vision for The Intelligent Visit, Which of Epic's 100+ AI Use Cases Get the Most Adoption, What Changes About Physician Identity in the Age of AI, and more..."
May 26
1 hr 4 min
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