Innovate Health

For some patients with complex or recurrent brain tumors, GammaTile offers a new option: targeted radiation that begins in the operating room. In this episode of Innovate Health, we sit down with the OHSU specialists who launched Oregon's first GammaTile program to talk about how it works, who may benefit and what it took to bring it to patients. In this episode, we talk about: • How GammaTile com...

Can an AI voice agent make surgery day smoother — without losing the human touch? In this episode of Innovate Health, OHSU shares how it became the first health system in the country to launch an agentic AI patient-reminder call for surgical patients — cutting procedure cancellations by roughly 50% while freeing staff for higher-value work. ⚠️ Content warning: This episode includes a brief discuss...

How does a promising discovery in a research lab actually become a company, a licensed product, or a clinical tool patients can use? In this episode of Innovate Health, Dr. Aditi Martin, Senior Director for Collaborations and Entrepreneurship at OHSU, breaks down how OHSU Innovates helps researchers, clinicians, and students turn early-stage ideas into partnerships, startups, and market-ready inno...

Fragmented perioperative staffing models — driven by siloed knowledge, manual scheduling, and overreliance on hero staff — create inefficiencies that delay surgical access and increase staff burnout. This discussion highlights how an AI-powered staffing optimization platform leverages real-time workforce data and case-history intelligence to automate assignments, standardize decision-making, and i...

Ambient AI scribe technology is redefining clinical documentation by reducing cognitive and administrative burden while restoring patient-centered care. Through a rigorously evaluated, data-driven implementation, OHSU demonstrates how AI-assisted documentation can cut charting time in half, improve clinician retention, and enhance the quality and accessibility of clinical data—without compromising...

In this episode, Dr. David Huang tells the story of how optical coherence tomography (OCT) grew from a single research project in an MIT lab into a mainstream medical technology that saves the eyesight of millions and launched an entirely new field of innovation. He reflects on the teamwork and collaborators who shaped the breakthrough—and why working with people has been the highlight of his care...

OHSU's new inpatient addition, Vista Pavilion, will expand OHSU inpatient capacity while redefining what healing spaces can be. With an emphasis on holistic experiences that integrate patient care with emotional and environmental considerations, as well as dedicated interdisciplinary staff and research space, the Vista pavilion puts patients, families, and staff at the center of the design and exp...

This episode discusses the critical role of ongoing advanced EHR training in empowering clinicians to deliver care more efficiently, remain adaptable, and achieve higher levels of professional satisfaction. "It's not Epic training, it's clinician training with Epic.

Clinical informatics at OHSU, how it started and how the focus on human-centered design continues to drive how we test, adopt and integrate health care technology and the critical role clinical informatics plays at OHSU. "[Clinical informatics] is a collaboration that has the happiness of our providers, and the success of our system, and the success of our patients at its heart."

OHSU Sprints, what they are, how they can help reframe workflows and processes to meet the diverse needs of staff across a unit or department, and why they’re essential for enhancing clinical effectiveness and engagement with the electronic health record.

How AI, or artificial intelligence is reshaping health care—the opportunities it brings, the risks it poses, and the thoughtful steps needed to move forward.

The goals behind the Innovate Health podcast, what we hope to achieve, why a podcast and how folks can share ideas and thoughts for future episodes.

How the OHSU Health Recharge Retreat fits into the broader mission to boost satisfaction and efficiency through Epic initiatives at OHSU, including a candid, firsthand account from an attendee on what it’s like to attend the retreat, and how the experience impacted his work and well-being.