Adam Gold - MBA - HIT, CAHIMS, CPHIMS, CHTS, CHTP

Can #AI diagnose medical problems? How does AI help physicians? How is AI impacting the practice of medicine? Jason Wiesner, MD, chair of the imaging service line at Sutter Health, explores these questions and more.

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Listen Here: https://lnkd.in/gC-57J2s In this episode, Joseph Izzo, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at San Joaquin General Hospital, joins the podcast to discuss leading informatics and AI strategy in a public teaching hospital while balancing innovation, governance, and cybersecurity. He shares insights on emerging digital health tools, data driven care, and advice for clinicians navigating rapid technological change. For more information about Becker's Healthcare, please contact Jessica Cole or Scott Becker. #podcast #healthcare #leadership

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AHS Manager of Interpreter Services Sambo Ly spoke at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this week, which brings together leaders at the intersection of health equity, technology, policy, and investment. "Artificial intelligence may cover linguistic competency, but it cannot cover the emotional competency needed in interpretive services,” Ly said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gFTMFsAJ

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With the support of a multi-year strategic partnership with GE HealthCare, Sutter Health is positioned to power clinical excellence with academic partnerships and graduate medical education. This effort will help train tomorrow’s radiologists and expand access to advanced imaging innovations for patients across Northern California. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gDKMRq6G. #SutterProud

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An AI-powered system is making the patient portal work smarter, helping 4.9 million people in Southern California get care faster and with less hassle. Khang Nguyen, MD, assistant executive medical director for Care Transformation at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, says: “Patients are really expecting artificial intelligence to support health care in a way that is supporting other industries—in the sense that people are able to describe what they want versus being given choices.” Read more: https://ow.ly/RLOz50WEL6z #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth #PatientExperience #ValueBasedCare #PermanenteMedicine

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Sutter Health is preparing for a future where most of its care is delivered outside the walls of its hospitals. The California-based health system, like many of its peers, is also looking to reduce burden on its clinicians. I caught up with Laura Wilt, Sutter's chief digital officer, at HLTH, and we talked about some of her AI priorities, including ambient listening, reducing documentation burden on clinicians, better workflows around how data is collected, improving two-way communication with insurers, and allowing clinicians to remotely manage patients with chronic conditions. Check out our conversation below and let me know your thoughts. #healthcareonLinkedIn #BigIdeas2026

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🚨 New Episode Alert! Join Rohit Mahajan, Managing Partner at Damo for an insightful conversation with Michael Marchant, Director of Digital Applications at Sutter Health. Michael shares how interoperability and AI adoption are powering a more connected, intelligent healthcare ecosystem. He also discusses how health systems can optimize data exchange, the role of AI in enhancing care delivery, and Sutter Health’s approach to scaling digital transformation. 🎧 Listen now: https://hubs.la/Q03z5l8p0 #Interoperability #HealthcareAI #DigitalHealth #HealthIT #TheBigUnlock #Podcast #DataStrategy

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Excited to share that Kaiser Permanente has taken another major step toward simplifying care delivery and improving the experience for our members, patients, physicians, and care teams.   This summer, we consolidated six electronic health record systems in Northern California and six in Southern California into one unified EHR for each market. This work creates a single, streamlined platform that strengthens coordination, enhances data consistency, and supports more seamless clinical workflows across our care delivery system.   This milestone was made possible through meticulous planning and remarkable teamwork across the organization—including the Permanente Medical Groups, Hospital and Business Operations, IT teams, and our frontline staff. It was executed at scale and with precision, all while upholding our commitment to quality, safety, and affordability.   This effort aligns directly with our IT strategy to Standardize, Simplify, andTransform and reflects our dedication to improving the integrated care experience we deliver. Read more: https://lnkd.in/geexDeVY  

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The promise of artificial intelligence in the healthcare setting isn’t measured by speed but by what problem it will help to solve, according to Dr. Deepti Pandita, FACP, FAMIA, chief medical information officer and vice president of clinical informatics at UCI Health. “We don’t look at innovation for the sake of innovation. If there is a burning problem we need to solve, then we look at AI more thoughtfully. But everything must follow the same governance process." Read more https://bit.ly/4alMbqu

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Tucson Medical Center is showing what it means to bring AI into healthcare without losing sight of the human connection. Their approach keeps technology in the background and preserves the moments that matter most between patients and providers. With ambient AI, predictive tools, and Microsoft DAX Copilot integrated thoughtfully across workflows, TMC can automate administrative tasks, capture structured data accurately, and provide clinicians with actionable insights in real time. This allows providers to focus on patient care while AI handles the complexity behind the scenes. I see this as a model for how AI can advance healthcare more broadly - combining strategy with empathy, precision with presence. TMC’s work shows that when we design AI with humanity in mind, we can extend access, improve outcomes, and deliver on the long-held promise of precision medicine. https://lnkd.in/etzA7Y_7

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Those “direct-to-physician” CDS AI tools like OpenEvidence and DoximityGPT? They're now going after health systems too. My 5 thoughts on how this will all play out: First, the gist of what was announced: → Sutter Health will integrate OpenEvidence with Epic, allowing physicians to access the AI medical search engine directly within the patient chart → UC San Diego Health is rolling DoximityGPT - their AI medical search engine - across the organization, while also making its AI scribe tool available My 5 thoughts on all this: 1/ This move to compete in the enterprise was 100% inevitable. Especially for OpenEvidence that just raised $250M at a $12B valuation, the only way to justify that valuation is to keep rapidly increasing revenue growth - and they can’t do that without increasing their Total Addressable Market beyond individual physicians. If they are truly already used by 40% of US physicians, then revenue growth is going to plateau if they don’t grow into adjacent markets. 2/ Is the Sutter Health integration of OpenEvidence and Epic just an embedded view for easy access? Or is there true data integration where a doctor can ask a question and OpenEvidence already has full context about the patient, and thus can produce a personalized answer? From the press release it sounds like just an embedded view for now, but full data integration for personalized CDS - the holy grail - seems inevitable. We know Evidently, AvoMD and others have already done this so it’s a matter of when, not if. 3/ What will be the business model? I suspect it will switch from an ad-model to a SaaS model. Health systems typically avoid ads to doctors and will also require more significant professional services for integrations, training, account management, etc and thus also cost more. 4/ How will this all work when EHRs are pushing doctors to use their own AI clinical assistants (e.g. Epic Art)? Unlike the growing competition between EHRs and AI scribes, I suspect Epic will allow companies like OpenEvidence, Doximity and UpToDate to just directly connect into Art - so doctors can access the same CDS experience. Chat itself is now a universal form factor, and as long as you’re selling licenses, the CDS companies don’t care what the access point is. As for Epic, they want to be a “software factory” and not a clinical guidelines/content factory - so I predict Epic will release a Toolbox category for CDS AI to integrate with Art. 5/ This will put major pricing pressure on UpToDate - however, UpToDate will have a head start on integrating with EHR AI assistants like Epic Art, given their longstanding partnerships with the EHRs. If I were UpToDate, I would be doing a mad dash to be the first to get AI CDS into Art and figure out a revenue share that incentivizes Epic to promote their product.

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Oracle Health just dropped a from-scratch, AI-driven, voice-first EHR for ambulatory care — not an upgrade, not a patch — a full rebuild on Oracle Cloud. This move raises two big questions: - Can Oracle keep its current customers from jumping ship? - Will targeting ambulatory care & smaller hospitals (vs. large AMCs) prove a smarter entry point — especially when bundling EMR + ERP?

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