

The Digital Patient
SeamlessMD
Stories from the frontline of Digital Patient Engagement
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Nov 3, 2026 • 53min
250: Canary Speech's CMO Dr. Kang Hsu: What a Former CMIO Learned from the "Dark Side," What 40 Seconds of a Patient's Voice and AI Can Reveal, and Building the ROI Case for Novel AI CDS
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Kang Hsu, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Canary Speech, about "What a Former CMIO Learned from the 'Dark Side,' What 40 Seconds of a Patient's Voice and AI Can Reveal, Building the ROI Case for Novel AI CDS, and more..."

Oct 29, 2026 • 54min
249: UC Davis Health's CHIO Dr. Scott MacDonald: Diagnosing EHR Frustration Like a Patient Exam, How AI Scribes Could Break Clinical Decision Support, and the Hidden Risk of AI's Errors of Omission
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Scott MacDonald, MD, Chief Health Information Officer at UC Davis Health, about "Diagnosing EHR Frustration Like a Patient Exam, How AI Scribes Could Break Clinical Decision Support, the Hidden Risk of AI's Errors of Omission, and more..."

Oct 27, 2026 • 59min
248: UT Health San Antonio's Dr. Edward Sankary: Why Pilots Can't Be an Excuse to Avoid Strategy, How a "Mundane" AI Agent Hit Near-100% Compliance in Days, and When to Pause or Kill an AI Project
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Edward Sankary, MD, Vice President, Chief Health Informatics Officer and Chief Value Officer, UT Health San Antonio, and President, Regional Physician Network ACO, about "Why Pilots Can't Be an Excuse to Avoid Strategy, How a "Mundane" AI Agent Hit Near-100% Compliance in Days, When to Pause or Kill an AI Project, and more..."

Oct 22, 2026 • 56min
247: Sutter Health's CCIO Dr. Richard Milani: Why RPM Billing Pays for the Wrong Thing, the 10-to-1 ROI of Chronic Disease Control, and Health Literacy as a Design Input, Starting With Measurement
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Richard Milani, MD, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at Sutter Health, about "Why RPM Billing Pays for the Wrong Thing, the 10-to-1 ROI of Chronic Disease Control, Health Literacy as a Design Input—Starting With Measurement, and more..."

Oct 20, 2026 • 50min
246: Stanford Children's CMIO Dr. Keith Morse: The Real Reason AI Projects Succeed Has Nothing to Do With AI, Why One Use Case Undersells Every LLM, and Why Building Your Own AI Is a Closing Window
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Keith Morse, MD, MBA, CMIO at Stanford Children's Health, about "The Real Reason AI Projects Succeed Has Nothing to Do With AI, Why One Use Case Undersells Every LLM, Why Building Your Own AI Is a Closing Window, and more..."

Oct 8, 2026 • 53min
245: UCSD's CMIO Dr. Marlene Millen: Is 20% Use of AI Draft Portal Responses Enough, Why Clinician Stories Beat ROI Spreadsheets for AI Funding, and How to Stop Shadow AI Without Punishing Anyone
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Marlene Millen, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at UC San Diego Health, about whether 20% Use of AI Draft Portal Responses is Enough, Why Clinician Stories Beat ROI Spreadsheets for AI Funding, How to Stop Shadow AI Without Punishing Anyone – and much more.

Oct 6, 2026 • 53min
244: Bergen New Bridge's CHIO Dr. Anthony Rosania: How Safety Nets Use AI Safely, What Informatics Can Learn From Pharmacists on ROI, and Why a Zero Denial Rate Means You're Losing Money
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Anthony Rosania, MD, MHA, Chief Health Information Officer at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, about "How Safety Nets Use AI Safely, What Informatics Can Learn From Pharmacists on ROI, Why a Zero Denial Rate Means You're Losing Money, and more..."

Sep 29, 2026 • 46min
243: Becker's 2026 Debrief: Competing with Wayne Gretzky (and winning), What Happens When Patients' AI Agents Start Talking to Yours, and The Most Interesting Ideas We Heard
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...

Sep 24, 2026 • 52min
242: Penn Medicine's Anna Schoenbaum: What Happens When Nurses Start Charting Out Loud for AI, The 3-Tier Rule for When AI Needs a Human in the Loop, and Why More Communication Won't Fix AI Adoption
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..."

Sep 22, 2026 • 55min
241: Johns Hopkins Medicine's Dr. Brian Hasselfeld: Why AI Is a Labor Transformation, Not a Tech Shift, How Hopkins Governs AI Without Grinding to a Halt, and Who Gets the Productivity Gain with AI
On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Brian Hasselfeld, MD, Executive Medical Director, Digital Health and Innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, about "Why AI Is a Labor Transformation, Not a Tech Shift, How Hopkins Governs AI Without Grinding to a Halt, and Who Gets the Productivity Gain with AI, and more..."


