The Digital Patient
Conversations with the clinicians, operators, and innovators driving the next era of digital patient care across North America.
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EP. 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
Marlene Millen, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, UC San Diego Health
Voices shaping digital health
Jackie Gerhart, MD
Epic Systems
Christopher Longhurst, MD
Seattle Children's
Peter Pronovost, MD
University Hospitals
Deepti Pandia, MD
UCI Health
Mark Townsend, MD
Bon Secours Mercy Health
Aaron Miri, DHA
Baptist Health
CT Lin, MD
UCHealth
Alistair Erskine, MD
Emory Healthcare
Roberta Schwartz, PhD
Houston Methodist Hospital
Rebecca Mishuris, MD
Mass General Brigham
Brett Oliver, MD
Baptist Health
Amy Sitapati, MD
UCSD Health
Allen Hsiao, MD
Yale New Haven Health System and Yale School of Medicine
Jennifer Goldman, MD
Memorial Healthcare System
Benjamin Hohmuth, MD
Geisinger
Andrew Miner, MD
Inova Health
240+ conversations on digital care
Featured Episode
Oct 8, 2026 · Episode 245 · 54 min
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
with UC San Diego Health's Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Marlene Millen
Marlene Millen, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, UC San Diego Health
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
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
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
Joshua Liu, MD
Co-founder & CEO, SeamlessMD
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
Anna Schoenbaum, DNP, RN, NI-BC
Vice President and Chief Digital Applications Officer, Penn Medicine
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
Brian Hasselfeld, MD
Executive Medical Director, Digital Health and Innovation, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Lee Health's Jon Witenko: Why Ambient AI Stalls the Moment It Leaves the Ambulatory Clinic, Why He Stopped Waiting for the Perfect Smart Room, and 60-Second Pitches to Get Your Project Funded
Jonathan Witenko
System Director, Digital Transformation, Lee Health
Saint Francis' CMO Dr. Reetu Singh: Why to Shop for Digital Tools the Way You Shop at Home Depot, the Hidden Cost of Standardizing Patient Care, and the Signal That Beats Every Dashboard Metric
Reetu Singh, MD, FACHE, MBA, CPHQ
Senior Vice President and System Chief Medical Officer, Saint Francis Health System
Essentia Health’s ACMIO Dr. Dave Kunstman: The Voice Agent Epic’s Agent Factory Built in Under a Day, Why Faster Builds Mean Faster Mistakes, and Why Ambient AI Is Care Redesign, Not Documentation
David Kunstman, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Essentia Health
Inova Health's CIO/CDO Matt Kull: Why the Five-Year Vendor Contract Is Dead, Catching AI Model Drift Without Doubling Headcount, and How to Protect Trust with Good Governance
Matt Kull
Chief Information and Digital Strategy Officer, Inova Health
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