One Click At a Time: Technology Empowered Family Medicine Podcast

Dr. Steven Lin is a practicing family physician, Chief of General Primary Care at Stanford University School of Medicine, the President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA3RT). In this delightful episode, Steve shares his origin story including how he came to North America and how his childhood experience...

In their quest to learn more about AI in family medicine education, Kelly and Lalita interview Dr. Karim Hanna, an associate professor and the program director of the University of South Florida Family Medicine Residency. A clinical informaticist, Karim also writes a regular substack on AI at https://www.karimhannamd.com/. In this thoughtful, philosophical conversation, the three discuss how clear...

In this episode, Lalita and Kelly have an expansive conversation with Dr. Anoop Raman, a family physician and the Chief Clinical Officer at AbsoluteCare, a value based care company that serves high-risk, complex patients. Anoop shares his journey from warehouse manager to working for Partners In Health in Rwanda to teaching global health at the Columbia School of Public Health, and finally to join...

Kelly just got back from Epic UGM and we wanted to get the freshest of the fresh takes! In this episode, Kelly spills her experience and her thoughts, especially now that Epic has shared everything from ambient documentation to their plans for agentic AI. Kelly talks upleveling family medicine's tech discernment skills, dedicating our speciality to innovation, and getting excited for what data ste...

Dr. Winston Liaw is a family physician and the chair of the Health Systems and Population Health Sciences department at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston. Winston was the former director of the American Academy of Family Physician's Policy Institute: The Robert Graham Center. In this episode, Kelly, Lalita and Winston weave through his past policy resea...

Dr. Kameron Matthews is a family physician and Chief Health Officer for Cityblock Health, an innovative value-based care provider that leans on technology to integrate care. In this episode, Kelly and Lalita explore Kameron's journey through medical school and law school, her leadership at the Veteran's Health Administration, and what bringing innovation beyond tradition looks like. A key lesson:...

In early May, Lalita and Kelly attended the Starfield Summit, a collaboration between the American Academy of Family Physicians and Rock Health, in Kansas City, MO! In this episode, they reflect on the conversation at the summit and their key takeaways on the principles that can guide AI development to support primary care with ground truths, including the 4 Cs of Primary Care (Comprehensiveness,...

In April, Kelly gave a talk called "Reducing Administrative Burden for Family Physicians" to the Texas Academy of Family Physicians at their Lectureship CME series. In this episode, she shares her talk with you, our One Click At A Time listeners! Using the AAFP mnemonic "The Triple Ts: Techniques, Technologies, and Transformations," she breaks down how to organize ourselves and where we can focus...

Innovation is a word that is liberally used in technology spaces. Within family medicine circles, we believe that innovation is baked in to our self-perception. Bridging that gap is like leading a diplomatic mission. In a payment landscape where family medicine is the "upstream" problem to the "downstream solution," what is the innovative role of family medicine? In this episode, Kelly and Lalita...

We're taking a break for the month of April, but we still want you to meet some of our incredible friends and colleagues! In September of 2024, we chatted with Chief Product Officer extrodinaire, Kalie Dove-Maguire. Take a listen! In this episode, Kelly and Lalita chat with a good friend of the podcast, Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire. Kalie is an Emergency Medicine physician who is now the Chief Product O...

We're taking a break for the month of April, so we thought we would repost some of our spicier takes! This episode was originally published July 16, 2024. "Value" based care is all the rage, but as two family docs interested in data and measurability, we're not so sure. VBC will likely increase the need for informaticists and good data queries, but are proxies dictated by payers really able to cap...

 In this week's episode, Kelly and Lalita speak with Dr. Marisha Burden, the division head of Hospital Medicine and a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the co-creator of the mobile platform, Gritty Work. She's an avid researcher, publisher, and thought leader on evidence-based work design and building thriving teams. With a remarkable broad research base an...

Alternate title: Assessment BEFORE Plan In this episode, Lalita and Kelly speak with Esther Johnston, MD, family physician and an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program. She currently serves as the Director of the Global Engagement Network for Primary Health Care (GEN-PHC), a polycentric collaborative of primary care academicians that ai...

Kelly and Lalita chat with Alex Butler, MD a pediatric chief resident at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, and the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of River Records, an AI-powered documentation and data summarization platform. Alex received a medical degree and a Masters in Clinical Informatics from Columbia University. In this episode, the three discuss the phenomenon of a...

In this episode, Lalita and Kelly speak with Col. Brian Cahill, Chief of Soldier Primary Care and soon-to-be Chief Nursing Officer at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Cavazos, Texas. As a colonel in the army with a 20-year career in clinical and administrative leadership roles, Brian discusses his journey from bedside nursing to completing a Masters degree in Clinical Informatics at Duk...

Kelly and Lalita share their own backgrounds and how they got interested technology innovation. They also share the origin story of the podcast! Other hot takes on this week's episode include: - Do we actually want to work at the top of our license? - Sometimes fun solutions are better than efficient ones - Big picture thinking to change systems and identifying stakeholders

In this week's episode, Lalita and Kelly speak with Dr. Sara Pastoor, a DPC family physician at People-Centered Health and the Head of Primary Care Advancement at Elation Health. Sara shares her origin story of her instrumental role in shifting the military from AHLTA (the armed services EHR) to safer interfaces, all the way to Elation Health which emphasizes the importance of co-development betwe...

Jordan Chanler-Berat, MD is an Emergency Medicine physician and the founder/CEO of POCUS Preceptor, a company that supports clinical learners to learn point-of-care ultrasound later in their careers. In addition to practicing at Baystate Health, Berkshire Health Systems, and Holyoke Medical Center and teaching at ultrasound at UMass Chan Medical School, Dr. Chanler-Berat spends time as a clinical...

Dr. Sarah Nosal, MD is the president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a practicing family physician in the Bronx. In this episode, Sarah shares her journey with Lalita and Kelly from her days programming a turtle in kindergarten to becoming the Vice President for Innovation & Optimization and Chief Medical Information Officer at The Institute for Family Health, a federally qu...

Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, is a Family Medicine physician and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health Information Systems at Solventum, the healthcare business spin-off of 3M. Travis has had a varied career, including full time clinical medicine, peace corps work as a medical educator, and multiple roles within 3M. Kelly, Lalita and Travis talk about his experiences being the only family physicia...

We're back for 2025! In this episode, Lalita and Kelly speak with Elliott Wortham, a design and strategy consultant and the Director of Cove Studio in San Francisco, CA. Elliott helps us understand design principles for the family physician and how a fresh perspective is imperative to problem solving. Ultimately, each one of us can consider the unconsidered in our clinical environments to make it...

Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in each week! In this episode, Kelly and Lalita reflect on an incredible year of doing 28 podcast episodes, and how these conversations have changed their perspective on technology in primary care, while impacting how they practice medicine on the ground. Kelly and Lalita highlight some of their favorite podcast moments and set intentions for the new ye...

In the second to last episode of the season, Kelly and Lalita have a wonderful conversation with family physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of AskMeYourMD, Dr. Patricia Kelly Marsh. In this episode, Patricia shares with us how she is breaking the mold when it comes to telemedicine and payment models, and how the thing driving her through thick and thin is strong sense of confidence, faith, and believ...

Dr. Robert Oh's career has spanned military service, residency education, and he now serves as the Chief Wellness Officer for the Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Palo Alto. An enthusiast for cutting edge medical innovations, Rob has used continuous glucose monitors since 2019 and advocates for their use in family medicine practices. In this episode, Kelly, Lalita and Rob discuss medical res...