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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..."
Recently Dr. Sabrena Noria, Surgical Director of Bariatric Surgery at Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center, shared insights on how her center uses digital care journeys (SeamlessMD) to engage and track patients from referral through surgery - which has helped OSU reduce time to surgery by 1.5 months already.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently released data showing how provinces were performing on wait times for surgery in 2023. Of particular importance to the country has been cutting wait times and the backlog for Hip and Knee replacements since the pandemic. The KPI that CIHI uses is the % of joint replacement surgeries performed within the recommended wait time of 26 weeks (182 days).
Nora has lived with Crohn’s disease for the last almost 50 years of her life. This meant having to be mindful of her diet, be on medications, and endure a bowel resection, a hysterectomy, and several colonoscopies over the span of her diagnosis. Nora is no stranger to procedures, and they have been a regular part of maintaining her health while living with Crohn’s. With her last colonoscopy at Markham Stouffville Hospital, Nora was introduced to an application called SeamlessMD, a program that would help her prepare for and recover from her procedure, via a personal mobile device.
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Aaron Miri, CDIO at Baptist Health, about "Empowering Clinicians to Develop with Low-Code Tools, When It's Better to Partner with a Startup v. Rely on the EHR, Consolidating Tech Stack for Efficiency, and more..."
First in region to offer SeamlessMD for active remote patient monitoring, enhancing surgical outcomes and patient experience. Halton Healthcare proudly announced a new partnership with Toronto-based company, SeamlessMD.
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana share a recap of HIMSS24 including "HIMSS v. HLTH, Comparing Epic, Cerner & MEDITECH's Approach to AI Scribes, Virtual Nursing, Networking Do's and Don'ts, and more..."
Vitalité Health Network, through its membership with the Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network, is deploying a digital platform to improve surgical outcomes for patients. The platform, created by Toronto-based SeamlessMD, guides patients before, during and after surgery. It has been proven to reduce readmissions and emergency department visits and shorten length of hospital stay.
Horizon Health Network (Horizon) is expanding the availability of a leading Canadian-made digital patient journey application to patients undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery.
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Chero Goswami, CIDO at University of Wisconsin Health System, about "Empowering IT to Own Outcomes, Why Every Healthcare Leader Must Know Economics, Chero's 3G Philosophy on Service Excellence, and more..."