
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 this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Rardi van Heest, Vice President of Medical Affairs, Research & Academics, about "Pioneering Digital Patient Engagement for Cancer Care."

We are proud to announce that our very own Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder and CEO at SeamlessMD, has received recognition as the 2021 Digital Health Executive of the Year by Digital Health Canada. This prestigious award is presented to individuals “whose outstanding contributions as a leader have helped advance Digital Health or Virtual Health in Canada.”

We are proud to share the results of our partnership with Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC), a 375-bed acute care hospital delivering care across Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario. Having achieved excellent outcomes using SeamlessMD for various surgical pathways including Total Hip and Knee surgery, the care team was confident they could also reduce post-discharge Emergency Department (ED) visits, length of stay (LOS) and readmissions for its Spine surgery program.

In this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. James Chan, Director of Innovation at Sault Area Hospital, about "Systematically Implementing Innovation for Health Systems."

SeamlessMD, the leading Digital Patient Engagement platform, has been designated as a pre-qualified vendor by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) to provide Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) across Canada. With increasing patient expectations for digital care since the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers have been racing to implement reputable RPM platforms that extend patient access to care beyond the bounds of the hospital – while also minimizing in-person visits.

SeamlessMD is excited to announce that it is now a verified Virtual Visit Solution for Healthcare Providers in Ontario. Ontario Health and Ontario Telemedicine Network has an established verification process for virtual care solutions to assist health service providers in implementing platforms that meet the provincial standard.

Grand River Hospital (GRH) has recently launched a surgical remote monitoring platform to support patients that are having hip or knee replacements. GRH is the first hospital in Southeastern Ontario to implement SeamlessMD as part of Ontario Health’s recent Remote Patient Monitoring initiative to expand access to care from home and minimize in-person surgery visits in response to the pandemic.

A recent study on the “Long-term Results from Prospectively Collected Patient-Reported Outcomes in Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Using Mobile Health Technology” presented at the 2021 ERAS USA Annual Congress by Atrium Health’s Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery discusses the benefits of using Digital Patient Engagement technology, such as SeamlessMD, to collect Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) for patients undergoing Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery.

In this episode of the SeamlessMD Podcast, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Jeffrey Blatnik, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of the Hernia Center at Washington University at St. Louis, about "Digital Patient Engagement to Improve Hernia Surgical Quality, Patient Experience & Patient-Reported Outcomes".