The Digital Patient

208: Rush's ACMIO Dr. Juan C. Rojas: Where AI Performs Best in Clinical Care Today, Evaluating AI like a New Drug or Device, and Using AI to Identify High-Risk Patients When Data is Incomplete

The Digital Patient

Show Notes

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Juan "JC" Rojas, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Rush University Medical Center, about "Where AI Performs Best in Clinical Care Today, Evaluating AI like a New Drug or Device, Using AI to Identify High-Risk Patients When Data is Incomplete, and more..."

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