Practical AI in Healthcare

In this episode of Practical AI in Healthcare, we sit down with Dr. Alvin Liu, retinal surgeon and Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, to explore one of the earliest and most successful real-world deployments of medical AI. Dr. Liu walks us through the evolution of autonomous AI for diabetic retinopathy screening, from FDA approval to large-scale cli...

In this episode of Practical AI in Healthcare, we sit down with Dr. Tiffany Leung, Scientific Editorial Director at JMIR Publications, to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific publishing from the inside out. As open access journals face unprecedented volumes of submissions, AI is simultaneously enabling faster discovery and creating new challenges around research integrity, p...

In this episode, Steven Labkoff and Leon Rozenblit explore the legal, regulatory, and risk-management challenges introduced by AI with two top experts in the field: Kathy Roe , Principal at Health Law Consultancy, and Kenny White , Director of the Managed Care Industry Group at Alliant Insurance Services. Together, they unpack how AI intersects with medical malpractice, product liability, HIPAA pr...

In our second Reflections episode, Steve Labkoff and Leon Rozenblit synthesize the most meaningful insights from guests across Episodes 9–15. Drawing on conversations with Orr Inbar, Martin Leach, Ing Ho, Yuri Quintana, and patient advocate E-Patient Dave, this episode highlights the themes shaping practical AI adoption in today’s healthcare landscape. Key topics include the inflection point AI ha...

We just released one of the most intellectually energizing conversations we’ve had on Practical AI in Healthcare . Our guest this week is Dr. Adam Rodman , physician, informatician, historian of medicine, and one of the most original thinkers at the intersection of AI and clinical reasoning. Adam brings a rare perspective to the field: before becoming an AI researcher, he spent years studying how...

Practical AI in Healthcare just released one of our most eye-opening conversations yet, featuring Orr Inbar, CEO & Co-Founder of QuantHealth. QuantHealth is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in clinical development with AI-driven clinical trial simulation. Orr walked us through how modern deep learning, massive biological knowledge graphs, and patient-level real-world data can now simu...

In the conclusion of our two-part conversation with Dr. Yin Ho , author of Rushing Headlong: Health IT’s Legacy and the Road to Responsible AI , we explore how healthcare can avoid repeating its digital past. Dr. Ho and hosts Dr. Steven Labkoff and Dr. Leon Rozenblit dive into small language models, decision support vs. decision control, the pitfalls of ambient scribing, and why “rage-building” th...

The newest episode of Practical AI in Healthcare features Dr. Yin Ho—physician, entrepreneur, and author of Rushing Headlong: Health IT's Legacy and the Road to Responsible AI. In Part 1 of our two-part conversation, Dr. Ho joins Dr. Steven Labkoff and Dr. Leon Rozenblit to unpack 25 years of digital health transformation—from the dawn of electronic medical records to the market and policy forces...

Dr. Yuri Quintana, Director of the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, joins us this week to discuss the DCI Network’s mission: turning AI in healthcare from theory into practice. The conversation traces DCI’s evolution as a multi-stakeholder “action tank” focused on collaboration, transparency, and patient safety. Quintana recounts the success of the Signal T...

In this episode of Practical AI in Healthcare , Dr. Steven Labkoff and Dr. Leon Rozenblit speak with ePatient Dave DeBronkart , a globally recognized advocate for patient empowerment. Dave shares his journey from a life-threatening kidney cancer diagnosis in 2007 to becoming one of the earliest champions of open data, patient access to medical records, and of late, patient use of AI tools to help...

This week’s episode of Practical AI in Healthcare dives into AI, truth, and the future of data in the government with Dr. Martin Leach , Chief Data Officer at Black Canyon Consulting . Dr. Martin Leach, PhD, is a data, science, and technology leader with a career spanning some of the most innovative organizations in life sciences and academia. A self-described “data geek,” Martin began his career...

In this week's episode, Leon and Steve unpack and digest the various pearls provided by our first 7 podcasts. From frameworks to consider concerning AI in the business and healthcare setting to AI Literacy, we highlight the various lessons learned as we move into our third month of the Podcast.

This episode of Practical AI in Healthcare features Brendan Arbuckle, CIO of The Jackson Laboratory (JAX). Brendan shares how a world-leading genetics institute is deploying AI to advance research, streamline operations, and raise AI literacy across its organization. From ethical sandboxes to research breakthroughs and “everyday AI” that saves clinicians time, he offers a refreshingly grounded tak...

Season 1, Episode 6 welcomes John Glaser —executive in residence at Harvard Medical School, former SVP at Cerner, past CEO of Siemens Health Services, and a pioneer in healthcare IT. Join hosts Dr. Steve Labkoff and Dr. Leon Rozenblit as they explore Glaser’s unique perspective on the trajectory of AI in healthcare, drawing lessons from over 40 years of industry transformation. Find out: Why every...

Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, is CEO and Co-Founder of Avo, the AI engine used by healthcare organizations to improve care and operational outcomes in a way clinicians love. He is a hospitalist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Saperstein graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with distinction in research in global health and from SUNY Downstate with a Master's in Public Health in hospital poli...

This week, Leon Rozenblit and I digest the wonderful wisdom we've heard over the first two months of the podcast. We try to distill all the various pearls that were dropped by our guest speakers. If you missed the first series of episodes, this will help you both catch up and speed through the learnings that came out of these discussions.

Scott Snyder is many things: a part-time professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, an author on AI, and the Chief Digital Officer of Eversana. In this episode we will explore Scott's various pursuits, his new book, and his view on where AI an Healthcare are intersecting.

One of the most underserved communities in the world of AI is that of clinicians. But Dr. Dereck Paul of Glass Health is trying to change that. Being a clinician himself, he's bringing a new approach to something that's the bane of a clinician's existence - creating and documenting interactions with patients. Listen in to this young entrepreneur as he unpacks his vision for clinical medicine and h...

This week we hear from someone in the thick of the AI game, John Apathy from XponenL.AI. John's the Chief Solution's Officer for this recently acquired AI firm that focuses in on the pharmaceutical R&D space. John explains his perspectives as well as some of the work being done by his firm for some of their largest customers.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, it marked a turning point in the global conversation around artificial intelligence. Virtually overnight, industries across the board began exploring how Generative AI could transform the way we work, think, and solve problems. Healthcare was no exception. From improving clinical workflows and accelerating research, to empowering patients and supporti...