
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 CommonSpirit Health's former Chief Information & Digital Officer, Suja Chandra, about "Emerging Digital Health Trends, The potential for AI in healthcare, Big Tech's influence on Digital Health, and more..."

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Mercy's VP, Clinical Innovation, Dr. Damon Broyles, about "Why Digital/Innovation leaders must reduce burdens on healthcare staff, Incubating healthtech startups to align with community needs, Serendipitous collisions in healthcare innovation ecosystems, and more...""

Enabling healthcare providers to conduct secure video follow-ups after surgery – Toronto, ON – Jan. 18, 2023 – SeamlessMD, a leading Digital Care Journey platform for hospitals and health systems today announced that its platform meets the mandatory requirements established by Ontario Health as part of the provincial standard for Virtual Visits Verification solutions for use within the Ontario health care sector.

Hip and knee replacements continue to be two of the most common procedures in North America and account for significant health system costs annually. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, in Canada, there are more than 138,000 hip and knee surgeries a year with estimated inpatient costs of over $1.4 billion annually.

In 2021 Grand River Hospital (GRH), one of Ontario’s largest community hospitals with 665 beds providing innovative, quality care to more than 840,000 residents of Waterloo Region and Guelph Wellington, partnered with SeamlessMD, a leading Digital Care Journey platform, to launch a surgical remote monitoring platform to support patients undergoing hip or knee replacements.

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 VP, Digital Health Systems, Brian Dobosh, about "Achieving Epic’s perfect 10 gold star ranking, implementing a feedback intake process to scale innovation, and why your EHR interoperability framework should be like an onion"

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with University of Iowa's CMIO, Dr. James Blum, about "Practical implementation of AI and Predictive Modeling for Personalized Care, Improving Patient Access to Care, Focusing Less on Tech Specs and More on Outcomes, and more..."

ERAS teams hustle to improve patient outcomes, save staff time, and optimize the patient experience. But, due to staff shortages and overwhelmed providers, these teams still face challenges to get the most out of their ERAS initiatives.

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Atrium Health's VP of Innovation, Todd Dunn, about "Building an Innovation System to Scale Impact Across a Health System, Conceptualizing a Multidimensional Consumer, Painstorming Before Brainstorming, and more..."