TDP 182: NYU Langone Health's Dr. Jonah Feldman: Evaluating Human vs AI-generated Patient Summaries, Using AI to Simplify Patient Discharge Info, and Does Your EHR Respect you?

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On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu and Alan chat with Dr. Jonah Feldman, Medical Director, Clinical Transformation and Informatics at NYU Langone Health, about "Evaluating Human vs AI-generated Patient Summaries, Using AI to Simplify Patient Discharge Info, and Does Your EHR Respect you?" Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.
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Audio:

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Guest(s):

• Dr. Jonah Feldman, Medical Director, Clinical Transformation and Informatics at NYU Langone Health
• Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD

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‍Episode 182 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:03:30] From mathematics and rabbinical ordination to clinical informatics leadership

[00:08:49] Evaluating AI-generated patient summaries and human-AI interaction dynamics

[00:13:49] Considerations for scaling AI-generated clinical summaries across hospital services

[00:19:28] Simplifying patient discharge instructions using AI-translation

[00:21:50] Potential downstream impacts of AI-generated discharge summaries on patient outcomes

[00:30:09] Improving med rec and care team communication using AI agents

[00:38:49] Does your EHR respect you? How to ensure EHRs respect clinician effort and time

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Fast 5 Lightning Round:

1. What is your favorite book or book you’ve gifted the most?
   Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
2. If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be?
   Instantly keeping up-to-date with rapidly evolving AI developments.
3. Would you rather have Super strength, super speed, or the ability to read people’s minds?
   Super speed.
4. What is something in healthcare you believe that others might find insane?
   That the current quality of clinical documentation is surprisingly poor, requiring extensive editing.
5. If you could go back in time to any event or moment, when would it be?
   The Pit (HBO) — which he found realistic and therapeutic, notably contrasting with his usual dissatisfaction with medical portrayals.

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