Bob Wachter wrote the book on the EHR disaster. Now he's written one about AI.
The UCSF Chair of Medicine joins hosts Steve Labkoff and Leon Rozenblit to discuss A Giant Leap, his argument that AI doesn't need to be perfect—it needs to beat a healthcare system already failing at scale. They cover Watson's $3B collapse, why ambient scribes became AI's first clinical success story, the human-in-the-loop problem that nobody has solved, and the dangerous gap between how experts and novices use AI tools.
Key topics: productivity paradox, complementary innovations, clinical decision support design, AI literacy, and the "compare me to the alternative" thesis.
The link to the book can be found here: https://a.co/d/07JFNwIw
