The Digital Patient

248: 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

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 Edward Sankary, MD, Vice President, Chief Health Informatics Officer and Chief Value Officer, UT Health San Antonio, and President, Regional Physician Network ACO, about "Why Pilots Can't Be an Excuse to Avoid Strategy, How a "Mundane" AI Agent Hit Near-100% Compliance in Days, When to Pause or Kill an AI Project, and more..."

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