
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..."

In 2018, Atrium Health, an integrated, non-profit health system with more than 70,000 teammates serving patients at 40 hospitals and over 1,400 care locations, initially deployed SeamlessMD’s Digital Care Journey platform for Hepatobiliary surgery.

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with MUSC's Vice Chair of Clinical Research & Applied Informatics, Dr. Heather Evans, about "Pioneering surgical wound monitoring, The tension between innovation and security in medical informatics, Why Digital Health must integrate into existing workflows, and more..."

All New Brunswickers deserve accessible and quality health care and a positive patient experience, and this initiative is one example of how Horizon is committed to providing that every day – (SAINT JOHN) Monday, February 27, 2023 – Horizon Health Network (Horizon), through its membership in the Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network, is launching an exciting project that will allow patients and clinicians to use a leading Canadian-made digital patient journey application.

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Serial Chief of Surgery, Dr. Douglas Slakey, about "Creating a Team of Teams to Rapidly Implement ERAS Across a Health System, Learning from the Airline Industry to Optimize Healthcare Reliability, and Empowering People to do the Right Thing By Making it Easy"

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with UPMC's VP, Clinical IT Transformation, Dr. Andrew Watson, about "Operationalizing Digital Health, the Evolution of Telehealth, and How Policy and Regulation Impact the Digital Health Landscape"

The healthcare ecosystem has seen a massive digital transformation in the past couple of years. We’ve lined up SeamlessMD’s top 5 podcasts from 2022 to curate the digital strategies, priorities and approaches being implemented and optimized to address healthcare consumerism, digital patient engagement, and quality improvements.

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Allegheny Health Network's Chief Digital & Information Officer, Dr. Ashis Barad, about "Why Healthcare needs to be Designed for Consumers and not just Patients, Using Tech to Scale Trust, and more..."

Remote Patient Monitoring Reduces ED visits and Readmissions for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedures – Montreal and Toronto, Canada – February 7, 2023 – The Montreal Heart Institute, the flagship of cardiovascular medicine in Quebec, a recognized research leader in Canada and around the world, and a true spearhead in cutting-edge cardiovascular medicine today announced the expansion of SeamlessMD...

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with RWJBarnabas Health's Director of Digital Health, Harshal Shah, about "The importance of educating patients for digital transformation, understanding the complexities of the consumer journey, saying "Yes" to opportunities to learn & grow, and more..."