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TDP 163: MetroHealth’s Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Yasir Tarabichi: How to Succeed with AI Sepsis Models (where others failed), Using AI to Fix Broken Processes, and Why Informatics Should Lead AI

January 23, 2025
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On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of 91ԭ, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Yasir Tarabichi, Chief Health AI Officer at The MetroHealth System, about "How to Succeed with AI Sepsis Models (where others failed), Using AI to Fix Broken Processes, Why Informatics Should Lead AI, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

Audio:

Guest(s):

  • Dr. Yasir Tarabichi, Chief Health AI Officer at The MetroHealth System
  • Dr. Joshua Liu (), Co-founder & CEO at 91ԭ

Episode 163 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:04:49] From Programming to Medicine

[00:09:39] The Role of a Chief Health AI Officer

[00:13:51] Fixing Healthcare’s Broken Systems Before Adding AI

[00:20:14] Data Interoperability and the Unsung Heroes of Informatics

[00:26:37] Lessons from AI Sepsis Models: People, Process, and Technology

[00:37:27] Launching Ovatient: Partnering with Health Systems to Scale Virtual Care Within Network

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

  1. Favorite Book or Book You’ve Gifted the Most:
    Breathing Race into the Machine by Lundy Braun.
  2. Person Dead or Alive You’d Love to Meet:
    Elon Musk (to see if he's okay...)
  3. Super strength, super speed, or mind reading:
    Mind Reading.
  4. Something in Healthcare You Believe in That Others Might Find Insane:
    The importance of feeding the machine. "LLMs won't save us from bad data"
  5. Last Film/TV Show:
    Pantheon.

TDP 163: MetroHealth’s Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Yasir Tarabichi: How to Succeed with AI Sepsis Models (where others failed), Using AI to Fix Broken Processes, and Why Informatics Should Lead AI

Posted by:
seamless
on
January 23, 2025

Subscribe on: | | | | |

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of 91ԭ, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Yasir Tarabichi, Chief Health AI Officer at The MetroHealth System, about "How to Succeed with AI Sepsis Models (where others failed), Using AI to Fix Broken Processes, Why Informatics Should Lead AI, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

Audio:

Guest(s):

  • Dr. Yasir Tarabichi, Chief Health AI Officer at The MetroHealth System
  • Dr. Joshua Liu (), Co-founder & CEO at 91ԭ

Episode 163 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:04:49] From Programming to Medicine

[00:09:39] The Role of a Chief Health AI Officer

[00:13:51] Fixing Healthcare’s Broken Systems Before Adding AI

[00:20:14] Data Interoperability and the Unsung Heroes of Informatics

[00:26:37] Lessons from AI Sepsis Models: People, Process, and Technology

[00:37:27] Launching Ovatient: Partnering with Health Systems to Scale Virtual Care Within Network

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

  1. Favorite Book or Book You’ve Gifted the Most:
    Breathing Race into the Machine by Lundy Braun.
  2. Person Dead or Alive You’d Love to Meet:
    Elon Musk (to see if he's okay...)
  3. Super strength, super speed, or mind reading:
    Mind Reading.
  4. Something in Healthcare You Believe in That Others Might Find Insane:
    The importance of feeding the machine. "LLMs won't save us from bad data"
  5. Last Film/TV Show:
    Pantheon.

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