TDP 167: UChicago Medicine’s CMIO Dr. Sachin Shah: Why Clinicians Must Stay in the Driver’s Seat of AI, The Risk of De-Skilling Clinicians with AI Documentation, and Tackling Digital Health Equity

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On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Sachin D. Shah, Chief Medical Information Officer at UChicago Medicine, about "Why Clinicians Must Stay in the Driver’s Seat of AI,The Risk of De-Skilling Clinicians with AI Documentation, and Tackling Digital Health Equity, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

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Guest(s):

• Dr. Sachin D. Shah, Chief Medical Information Officer at UChicago Medicine
• Dr. Joshua Liu (@joshuapliu), Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD

Episode 167 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:03:35] From Med-Peds Clinician to CMIO

[00:05:35] Why Clinical Decision Support Should Work Like GPS

[00:09:06] The Risk of De-Skilling Clinicians with AI Documentation

[00:12:26] Why UChicago Medicine Invested Early in Ambient AI

[00:16:40] How AI-Driven Documentation is Transforming Patient Interactions

[00:23:30] Bridging the Digital Divide: Why AI Tools Must Be Designed for All Patients

[00:27:15] How UChicago Uses Digital Navigators to Boost Patient Tech Adoption

[00:35:12] Why AI Must Be Transparent to Be Trusted in Medicine

[00:38:45] Beyond Documentation: How UChicago is Exploring AI for Patient Messaging & Clinical Summarization

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

1. Favorite Book or Book You’ve Gifted the Most:
   A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. Person Dead or Alive You’d Love to Meet:
   Mahatma Gandhi.
3. Super strength, super speed, or mind reading:
   Mind reading.
4. Something in Healthcare You Believe in That Others Might Find Insane:
   The keyboard should disappear from clinical encounters entirely.
5. What is the last movie or TV show you saw and what did you think of it?
   The Bear—it's kind of a love letter to Chicago and that was great!

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