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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 special duo episode, Alan Sardana sits down with SeamlessMD Co-founder and CEO Joshua Liu, MD, to unpack the biggest ideas from the Nabla Accelerate AI Executive Summit. Josh shares what he heard behind closed doors from CMIOs, CIOs, and digital health leaders—from why AI scribes unlocked AI adoption, to what comes next in healthcare automation, trust, and ROI. They explore where today’s AI may fall short, drawing inspiration from Yann LeCun's keynote ideas around World Models, how transparency matters more than “AI-first” branding, and why humility and execution—not hype—ultimately determine which AI solutions succeed in healthcare.
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Bob Jarve, MD, MBA, MSc, FAAP, FACP, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer of Population Health at Corewell Health, about "How Ambient AI Solves Burnout but Breaks Discrete Data Capture, Why Most Vendor Failures Happen Before Contract Signing, How LLMs Supercharge SDoH Initiatives, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Bryon Frost, CMIO at McLeod Health, about "Patient Visits of the Future with Patient-Clinician-AI Collaboration, Adaptive vs. Technical Informatics Challenges, the Move to Patient-First Precision Care, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Nicholas Gavin, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, and Dr. Girish Nadkarni, Chairman of AI and Human Health at Mount Sinai, about "How to Reliably Turn Predictive AI into Clinical Action, Developing a 'Scale-First' Operating Philosophy for Innovation, Asynchronous Care to Improve Patient Access, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Ryan Mackey, CMIO at LifePoint Health, about "Operationalizing 5 AI Scribe Vendors Across a System, How to Enforce Quality Across a Fragmented, Multi-EHR Health System, Expanding AI Beyond Physicians, and more..."
For quality and clinical operations leaders, the “alphabet soup” of CMS payment models is a constant reality. However, the upcoming Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) - launching January 1, 2026 - represents a significant shift. For more than 700 hospitals, this isn't an optional pilot; it’s a mandatory 30-day episode accountability framework for high-volume procedures, including joint replacements, hip fractures, spinal fusions, CABG and colorectal surgeries.
Over the last two years, patients undergoing hip or knee replacement at Southlake Health have been met with unparalleled support that extends beyond the hospital walls and into recovery at home. By pairing clinical excellence with SeamlessMD’s digital care journey platform, Southlake has strengthened the patient experience with clear education, timely reminders, and ongoing symptom monitoring that helps patients feel confident, connected, and cared for throughout the full episode of care.
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Priti Patel, CMIO at John Muir Health, about "Phenotypes of Clinician AI Adopters, Demonstrating ROI Without Stifling Innovation, How to Make Governance an Enabler, Not a Brake, and more..."
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Emily Jacobsen, VP, Clinical Systems, Chief of Clinical Informatics at University of Maryland Medical System, about "Why Trust is the Real Operating System for Clinical Transformation, Using Leadership Rounding as an Informatics Superpower, How to Avoid Pilots That Never Scale, and more..."