The Signal Room | AI in Healthcare: Strategy, Governance & Ethical Leadership

Send us Fan Mail Data governance and AI governance are the trust infrastructure every scalable healthcare AI depends on — Amit Shivpuja on what responsible data practices actually require. Data governance is the infrastructure most stakeholders never see and every trustworthy AI deployment depends on. Amit Shivpuja, Director of Data and AI Enablement at Walmart, joins Chris Hutchins to examine the...

Send us Fan Mail Healthcare AI security risks demand attention before deployment — Anitha Mareedu on cybersecurity leadership challenges and AI governance in healthcare. AI security risks in healthcare demand attention before deployment, not after. Anitha Mareedu, a network security engineer with experience spanning advertising, social media, security vendors, and chip design at Cadence, argues th...

Send us Fan Mail Responsible AI in healthcare starts with context — Keshavan Seshadri on AI explainability, algorithmic bias, and human-in-the-loop design for healthcare AI. Responsible AI in healthcare starts with one question: what context does the model actually have? Keshavan Seshadri, Senior ML Engineer at Prudential Financial and an architect of generative AI platforms and agentic frameworks...

Send us Fan Mail AI in healthcare cannot replace language access — Carol Velandia on communication equity, patient safety, and the limits of AI strategy for healthcare. AI in healthcare cannot replace language access, and treating it like it can puts patients at risk. Carol Velandia, Founder of Equal Access Language Services, has built her career around eliminating language-based discrimination in...

Send us Fan Mail AI strategy for healthcare is a data quality strategy first — Danette McGilvray on the rising cost of ignoring data governance in healthcare AI. AI strategy for healthcare is a data quality strategy first. Danette McGilvray, President of Granite Falls Consulting and author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information, has spent more than 30...

Send us Fan Mail AI strategy for healthcare cannot be copy-pasted from other industries — Ritu Chakrawarty on AI readiness, product adoption, and AI literacy for healthcare leaders. AI strategy for healthcare cannot be copy-pasted from another industry. Ritu Chakrawarty, an analytics and AI product leader with nearly 2 decades across analytics, consulting, startups, and enterprise AI strategy, arg...

Send us Fan Mail Ethical leadership, AI strategy, and the human-AI trust deficit — Dr. Larry Kuhn on psychological safety and why healthcare AI adoption stalls without credible leadership. Leadership in AI starts with trust, and the data says leaders are starting from a deficit. Only 25% of employees say they trust their CEO, and just 21% strongly trust their organization. Dr. Larry Kuhn, clinical...

Send us Fan Mail AI readiness in healthcare is a data readiness problem — Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee on why 80–85% of organizations are not prepared for AI strategy at scale. AI readiness in healthcare is not a marketing slogan; it is a data readiness problem, and 80 to 85 percent of organizations are not prepared. Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee, co-founder and Managing Director of Tech Variable, has spent...

Send us Fan Mail AI governance, interoperability, and healthcare AI strategy for 2050 — Dr. Barry Chaiken on why powerful AI tools require governance before deployment. AI in healthcare is powerful, and powerful tools require governance before they require deployment. Dr. Barry Chaiken, a physician leader with more than 25 years in clinical transformation, health IT, and public health, continues h...

Send us Fan Mail Healthcare AI, ambient listening, and the future of the patient-physician journey — Dr. Barry Chaiken on why AI in healthcare has to start with trust, not tools. AI in healthcare gets its meaning from the patient-physician relationship, not the other way around. Dr. Barry Chaiken, a physician leader with more than 25 years in clinical transformation, health IT, and public health,...