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EP. 251

Rochester Regional's Dr. Everett Weiss: Rethinking Time Saved as the Main AI Success Metric, Why 100% Ambient Adoption Is the Wrong Goal, and How to Fund a Project When the ROI Is Soft

Everett Weiss, MD

Medical Director, Health Informatics, Rochester Regional Health

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Nov 5, 2026 · Episode 251 · 48 min

Rethinking Time Saved as the Main AI Success Metric, Why 100% Ambient Adoption Is the Wrong Goal, and How to Fund a Project When the ROI Is Soft

with Rochester Regional Health's Medical Director, Health Informatics Dr. Everett Weiss

Everett Weiss, MD

Medical Director, Health Informatics, Rochester Regional Health

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EP. 251Nov 5, 26

Rochester Regional's Dr. Everett Weiss: Rethinking Time Saved as the Main AI Success Metric, Why 100% Ambient Adoption Is the Wrong Goal, and How to Fund a Project When the ROI Is Soft

Everett Weiss, MD

Medical Director, Health Informatics, Rochester Regional Health

EP. 250Nov 3, 26

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

Kang Hsu, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Canary Speech

EP. 249Oct 29, 26

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

Scott MacDonald, MD

Chief Health Information Officer, UC Davis Health

EP. 248Oct 27, 26

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

Edward Sankary, MD

Vice President, Chief Health Informatics Officer and Chief Value Officer, UT Health San Antonio

EP. 247Oct 23, 26

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

Richard Milani, MD

Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, Sutter Health

EP. 246Oct 21, 26

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

Keith Morse, MD, MBA

CMIO, Stanford Children's Health

EP. 245Oct 9, 26

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

Marlene Millen, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, UC San Diego Health

EP. 244Oct 7, 26

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

Anthony Rosania, MD, MHA

Chief Health Information Officer, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center

EP. 243Sep 29, 26

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

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