
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..."

Over the past decade, hospitals and health systems have focused their digital and IT efforts on implementing and optimizing their EHR. However, the recent rise of patients as health care consumers who have exceedingly higher expectations for convenient digital experiences with their providers, has motivated health systems to focus their digital transformation efforts on digitizing more of the patient experience.

In this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. David Berger, Chief Executive Officer at University Hospital of Brooklyn at State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, about the "Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Digital Health Adoption, Elevating Employee Satisfaction to Improve Patient Experience & Transitioning from Clinician to Hospital Executive".

SeamlessMD is proud to announce that the company has been recognized as one of the Best WorkplacesTM in Canada. The 2022 Best WorkplacesTM in Canada list is compiled by the Great Place to Work® Institute. The competition process to be ranked on this list is employee driven and represents multiple industries and sizes of organizations. 75% of each organization’s score is based on confidential employee feedback, from the globally recognized Trust Index® Survey. The remaining 25% percent is based on quality, quantity and effectiveness of the programs and policies which support their employees and corporate culture.

In this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Denise Basow, Chief Digital Officer at Ochsner Health, about her journey "From Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate to Ochsner Health's Chief Digital Officer, Re-building Consumer Trust Following COVID-19 & Generating Meaningful Patient Insights from Data to Disrupt Inefficient Workflows

The pandemic accelerated adoption of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) 1.0 - device-based, home monitoring of only the top 5% of patients at-risk, such as for congestive heart failure. However, the rise of patients as digital savvy patients as healthcare consumers has sparked a paradigm shift to digital care for everyone, and not just the top 5%.

In this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Becket Mahnke, Chief Medical Information Officer at Confluence Health, about "Shifting from CMIO 2.0 to 3.0, Creating "Invisible" Technology for Patients, and Pioneering Digital Health for the Army"

Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH), a full service, acute care hospital providing exceptional health care to the communities of Cambridge, North Dumfries, and the region of Waterloo today announced they are keeping patients connected to their care team with SeamlessMD, to increase access to care while improving patient outcomes.

As digital patient apps skyrocket in popularity with the rise of remote care solutions due to COVID-19, hospitals and health systems are racing to implement these digital solutions to deliver high quality care more conveniently.

In this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation at The Mount Sinai Health System, about "Using Technology to Re-humanize the Patient Experience, the Problem with Funding Healthcare Innovation with Research Grants & Being Mission-oriented vs. Compliance-oriented"