Techy Surgeon Podcast

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Prompt With CARE What watching someone else prompt taught me about the skill we all think is basic—plus two prompt packs that set up your Claude Cowork in one afternoon Yesterday I asked a student to sit at my computer and prompt Claude Cowork to build a presentation. He typed a single sentence, hit ente...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techysurgeon.substack.com Thank you Doug Fullington, MD , Alex Rivero , HealthMind Insights , Eric Burgh, MD , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. I can publish a paper in an upper-tier orthopedic journal and, if I’m being candid, a few hundred to maybe a few thousand people will rea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techysurgeon.substack.com Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. I went live at 6:45 the other morning to open three tabs, ChatGPT for Clinicians, Doximity GPT, and OpenEvidence, and ask them the same questions. A few dozen clinicians and subscribers joined at that hour on a Sunday...

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Thanks to everyone who joined this morning to tune in. I have below linked to my other techy flows, and please stay tuned for the follow-up article with a walkthrough of shorter clips of how you can use AI to make images and PowerPoints. Techy Surgeon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. https://techysurgeon.subst...

Thank you Edward M. DelSole, MD , Danny Goldenberg , Audley Mackel III , Darren Michael , and many others for tuning into my live video with Hadi Javeed ! Join me for my next live video in the app. The Skill Is the New Workflow Clinical AI won’t scale through better models. It will scale through better instructions. Interested in deploying clinical AI for your practice, value-based care organizati...

Thank you Hadi Javeed , Mike Logan, MD , Rachel , and many others for tuning into my live video with Sarah Habeeb ! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🗓️ TEAM Connect Virtual Summit — April 30, 2026 A full-day virtual event for hospital leaders navigating TEAM implementation. Speakers from Mass General Brigham, CommonSpirit, AdventHealth, Duke-Margolis, and more. I’ll be presenting on tech...

Thank you Doctor Steven Murphy , Edward M. DelSole, MD , The Counterweight Pod , John Lee , Rez , and many others for tuning into my live video with Mike Logan, MD ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Fourteen payers representing 165 million Americans just pledged to align with CMS’s ACCESS model by 2028. Venture capital funds are spinning up dedicated vehicles. Digital health companies ar...

Thank you Shaleen Vira, MD, MBA , Audley Mackel III , Nick Lella , Darren Michael , and many others for tuning into my live video with Edward M. DelSole, MD ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Techy Surgeon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A spine surgeon in rural Pennsylvania just found out his entir...

I first became aware of Doximity GPT the way many clinicians do—through a peer's recommendation. My brother who was an internal medicine resident at the time, (now a hospitalist), was using their AI scribe over a year ago when it was still in beta. “Have you seen this thing? It’s free,” he texted me. That early signal—clinicians organically discovering and adopting a tool—turns out to be core to D...

Knowtex is a 2022 women-founded company led by Stanford AI scientists that is headquartered in San Francisco, building ambient clinical intelligence to transform how clinicians capture and use medical information. Designed to be EHR-agnostic, specialty-specific, and deeply integrated into workflows, Knowtex enables providers to generate complete, accurate notes, codes, and orders in real time. By...

We’re taking a short break from health policy and the 12 days of ACCESS to rehash a clinical AI story. In 2025, ambient scribes proliferated and they got squeezed as well. I anticipate as native EHRs roll out more of their ambient scribes, the market is going to contract and contort in interesting ways. Ambient scribes have become the default “first use case” for clinical AI.Vendors promise hours...

Part 2 of a 12-part operator series on the CMS ACCESS Model Today, we’re covering how ACCESS fundamentally restructures Medicare payment for chronic disease management. This is truly a different financial architecture than fee for service. Here’s how the mechanics work. The 50% Withhold Structure The payment model uses a split disbursement approach with backend reconciliation. During the 12-month...

The ACCESS Model, Explained Part 1 of a 12-part operator series on the CMS ACCESS Model There has been no shortage of commentary since CMS released the 61-page Request for Applications for the ACCESS Model. The early reactions were predictable. Medicare finally opens to digital health. A direct threat to fee-for-service. A gold rush for chronic disease management. I shared my initial impressions s...

Hey everyone, I know 2025 was tough. New regulations dropping without warning. AI tools promising everything and explaining nothing. Value-based care models that sounded great until you tried to implement them. So I’m doing an end of year discount run. Some of the items on the agenda for 2026. * Exclusive interviews with leaders from Doximity, OpenEvidence, and Notex * AI tool guidance to help you...

Techy Surgeon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Osteoporosis is one of those conditions that stays invisible until it suddenly isn’t. People often feel perfectly fine, their daily routines unchanged, and then a fall from standing height leads to a broken hip or spine. The diagnosis arrives way after the damage...

Techy Surgeon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Parenting a toddler while juggling surgery, a startup, and a six-month-old is…a lot. There were nights when my son was screaming over bedtime or dinner and I found myself sneaking into the kitchen, typing frantic prompts into ChatGPT: “He’s jealous of the baby and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit techysurgeon.substack.com I hit “record” on the very first Techy Surgeon podcast with all the swagger of a resident doing their first solo case: a little shaky, very excited, ready to learn in public. My guest, Dr. Alex Crespo —orthopaedic trauma surgeon and Director of Orthopaedic Research at Endeavor Health in Chicago—showed up with s...

In a year thick with demos, headlines, and understandable caution, it’s hard to separate signal from noise in health AI. Duke is taking a different approach: pair scientific rigor with real operational build, and invite the people who will live with these systems to co‑design them. On October 8–9 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (RTP) , the Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation —hosted...

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably seen me share the little storybooks I’ve been making for my toddler. I started by using GPT image tools—super fun, but a little clunky. My son loved them, but honestly, I was spending way too much time stitching pages together. Turns out, there’s now a much easier way. Google quietly rolled out a Storybook Gem inside Gemini, and it’s almost absurdly s...

The United States spends roughly $380 billion each year on musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions—more than any other diagnostic category. Meanwhile, outpatient shifts have splintered workflows, and care gaps are widening in the very populations that most need coordinated care. That’s why we’re convening the Downeast Digital Summit , September 18–20 at the Westin in Charlotte, NC: an invite-only working...

I recently got access to ChatGPT’s new Study Mode , a feature that offers step-by-step guidance instead of just giving quick answers. As a techie surgeon and educator, I was eager to see how this could help me learn a topic interactively. To test it out, I picked a concept relevant to healthcare that I don’t know well off the top of my head: moral hazard in healthcare. Here’s how my learning sessi...

Techy Surgeon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is my first time using ChatGPT’s new agent feature. I’ve been experimenting with different ways to offload the basic stuff I do every day—like making infographics and visually compelling slides to communicate ideas or present (see last week’s video). This tim...

🧠 When GPT writes your notes, what’s your brain doing? A new MIT Media Lab experiment wired 54 volunteers to EEG caps while they wrote multiple SAT‑style essays under three conditions: no tools, Google Search, or ChatGPT. Those relying on ChatGPT showed the weakest pre‑frontal and parietal connectivity—the neural circuits tied to working memory and executive control. Even after the researchers to...