
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, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. David Chestek, CMIO at University of Illinois Health, about "Why AI Scribes Will Never Have 100% Clinician Adoption (and that's OK), How to Pick Representative User Groups for Health Tech Pilots, Why Wearables Pose a Problem, and more..."

Hoag, a leading healthcare system in Orange County, California, has made remarkable strides in improving patient outcomes and satisfaction through its partnership with SeamlessMD, a Digital Care Journey platform that allows providers to educate, engage and remotely monitor patients from preparation through recovery.

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Jake Lancaster, CMIO at Baptist Memorial Health Care, about "Adapting How You Talk About AI to Get Stakeholder Adoption, Saving Nurses 20 Minutes Per Shift Without Tech, Exploring Systemic Healthcare Issues Through Fiction, the Arthurian Legend, and 90s Music, and more...""

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Eric Alper, CQO / CCIO at UMass Memorial Health Care, about "Strategies for Scaling Hospital at Home, Exploring the Intersection of Informatics and Quality, How Incentives Drive Patient Care, and more...."

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, CMIO at Memorial Healthcare System, about "Eliminating Over 800,000 Daily Clicks, Actioning SDoH Data, and Mastering Change Management in a WFH Environment, and more...."

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Rebecca Mishuris, CMIO at Mass General Brigham, about "Safeguarding Relationships with AI, Turning Skeptics into Champions, Prioritizing Practical Wins Over Theoretical Benefits, and more...."

On a recent webinar hosted by Digital Health Canada, Dr. Jeremy Ho, a Medical Oncologist at Vancouver Coastal Health and the Richmond Hospital Cancer Care Clinic, shared insights and lessons learned on their use of Remote Symptom Monitoring (powered by SeamlessMD) to enhance the cancer journey for patients.

Today we are excited to share that our amazing customer partner Thunder Bay Regional has published their Orthopedic results with SeamlessMD in Arthroplasty Today, one of the journals supported by the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Jennifer MacGregor, VP, Digital Patient and Provider Experience at Fraser Health, about "Developing AI Copilots for Healthcare Efficiency, Launching Fraser's Digital Front Door, Why Being Kind Doesn't mean Being Nice, and more...."