Heather Lane

Heather Lane, a Senior Architect at athenahealth, discusses the implications of generative AI in healthcare, including reducing paperwork and assisting with routine tasks. The podcast emphasizes the importance of internal governance, establishing standards, and involving stakeholders for using generative AI in healthcare. The risks of generative AI are also discussed, such as AI bias and lack of understanding in how LLMs work. The potential future state of healthcare, where data seamlessly flows between patients and doctors, is explored.

Heather Lane, senior architect of data science at athenahealth, discusses the potential of AI to alleviate administrative burdens and prevent burnout in health care. Topics include AI in healthcare, processing unstructured data, optimizing processes, debate on scale versus model design in AI, future trends in AI and machine learning in healthcare, comparing the huge cost of healthcare administration to a life-saving program, and the potential benefits of AI in healthcare.