How to Build AI Tools That Doctors Actually Use | Dr. Graham Walker (Founder of Offcall and MDCalc)

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Feb 17, 2025

In this engaging discussion, Dr. Graham Walker, an Emergency Physician and co-founder of MDCalc and Offcall, shares insights on AI's transformative role in healthcare. He highlights MDCalc's immense adoption among U.S. doctors and the innovative impact of AI scribes in reducing burnout. The conversation touches on challenges such as privacy concerns and the risks of overreliance on AI. Dr. Walker also envisions a future where AI empowers emergency rooms, balancing technological benefits with essential human expertise.

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Technology Access in Healthcare

Doctors are very particular about technology access in their workflow.
Any hurdle, like logins, significantly reduces tool usage.

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Predictive AI for Patient Deterioration

Kaiser Permanente uses predictive AI to detect patient deterioration.
This AI model analyzes subtle changes in patient data, often before humans notice them.

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Generative AI in Hospitals

Ambient listening for AI scribes is the most common generative AI use case in hospitals.
Some hospitals offer internal LLMs for clinicians to reduce PHI data leakage risks.

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Dr. Graham Walker is an Emergency Physician and the Founder of MDCalc, a clinical decision support tool used by over 70% of U.S. physicians. He also co-founded Offcall, a platform addressing physician burnout through transparency and data-driven insights.

We dive deep into the real-world use cases of AI in hospitals—from predictive models that detect patient deterioration to generative AI scribes that free doctors from paperwork.

In this conversation, we discuss:

How MDCalc became a must-have tool for 70% of U.S. doctors,
Impact of AI scribes on physician burnout and patient care,
Risks of overreliance on AI,
Barriers to AI adoption in hospitals (privacy, cost, and trust),
The AI-powered emergency room of the future,
And much more!

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery explores how AI is reshaping industries in real-time. This season, we're diving deep into one of the most impactful and high-stakes applications of AI: healthcare.

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