Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Amy Trainor, CIO, Ochsner Health
Dec 22, 2025
Amy Trainor, Chief Information Officer at Ochsner Health, blends a rich nursing background with two decades in healthcare IT. She discusses the thoughtful deployment of AI in clinical and administrative settings, emphasizing the need for careful governance. Trainor highlights practical use cases like ambient technology and sepsis models. She also touches on the balance between high-risk clinical AI and low-risk administrative tools, while stressing the importance of people and processes in scaling virtual care.
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AI Is Practical, Not Just Hype
- AI is no longer a buzzword and is being used practically across clinical and administrative areas at Ochsner Health.
- Trainor separates clinical (high-risk) and administrative (lower-risk) AI use cases to match governance and QA rigor.
Ambient Tech Driving Clinician Harmony
- Ochsner is rapidly scaling ambient technology for physicians to improve work-life harmony and clinician satisfaction.
- Trainor reports strong clinician enthusiasm and active spread-and-scale deployment across the system.
Match QA To Clinical Risk
- Treat clinical AI with strict QA, bias checks, and human-in-the-loop oversight before clinician deployment.
- Deploy administrative AI faster where risk is lower to relieve back-office burden and iterate quickly.