
For bariatric surgery programs, the clinical procedure itself is often the most predictable part of the patient experience. What’s far more complex – and far more fragile – is everything that happens before a patient ever reaches the operating room.
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For bariatric surgery programs, the clinical procedure itself is often the most predictable part of the patient experience. What’s far more complex – and far more fragile – is everything that happens before a patient ever reaches the operating room.

In this special solo episode, hosts Joshua Liu, MD and Alan look back on their trip to Chicago for Becker's 2026 Annual IT + RCM Conference. They share the week's adventures, their first in-person Digital Patient meetup, and their own experiments with AI agents. They also go through standout ideas from speakers at Ochsner, Rush, Northwestern and more: why a human in the loop isn't enough, the burnout risk of practicing at the top of your license, why pilots don't automatically scale, why healthcare needs to get better at turning technology off, and more...

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Joshua Liu, MD, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Anna Schoenbaum, DNP, RN, NI‑BC, Vice President and Chief Digital Applications Officer at Penn Medicine, about "What Happens When Nurses Start Charting Out Loud for AI, The 3-Tier Rule for When AI Needs a Human in the Loop, Why More Communication Won't Fix AI Adoption, and more..."

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu and Alan chat with Dr. Alistair Erskine, Veteran CIO/CDO, about "Proving ROI for AI, Chat-based AI interfaces for the EHR, Why Every Health System should Hire a Chief Financial Informatics Officer, and more..."

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, Does Your EHR Respect you? and more..."

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu and Alan chat with Dr. Devin Mann, Strategic Director, Digital Health Innovation at NYU Langone Health, about "GenAI for Patient Communication, How to go from Research to Operational Use for Digital Health, Balancing Short & Long-term Strategy with AI, and more..."

At SeamlessMD, we’re launching a weekly series that showcases real product demos of our digital care journeys - which use a patient’s own smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer to guide them step-by-step with reminders, education symptom monitoring. Each week, we’ll highlight how our platform supports patients and care teams for specific surgical procedures or health conditions. This week’s spotlight: Spine Surgery

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Justin Brueck, System Vice President of Innovation and Research at Endeavor Health, about "the Business Case for AI Scribes, Rethinking Care Delivery from First Principles to Solve for The Silver Tsunami, Embedding Genomics into Patient Care, and more..."

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Bradley Crotty, Chief Digital Officer at Froedtert Health and Interim President at Inception Health, about "What Startups Get Wrong Working with Health Systems, Using Qualitative Data to Understand why Tech Isn’t Working, and Should Health Systems Still Have Venture Arms in 2025?"

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Andrew Markowski, CMIO at UVA Health, about "Why AI Models Succeed or Fail, the Standardization Myth, How to Increase Your Sphere of Influence For Better Change Management, and more..."

At our recent SeamlessMD customer conference, we were excited to sit down with Rebecca Liebau, Director of Clinical Services at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, to discuss their newest innovation: using SeamlessMD to support stroke recovery.

On this special episode of The Digital Patient, Josh and Alan unpack their experience at Epic’s XGM Conference—Epic’s first time allowing vendors at the event. Representing SeamlessMD, the first Toolbox partner for MyChart Care Companion content, they share the inside scoop on Epic’s whimsical culture, meaningful hallway conversations, and what it was like to exhibit alongside rising stars like Abridge.