Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Dr. Bashir Agboola on AI Strategy, Governance, and Turning Digital Investment into Performance
Mar 15, 2026
Dr. Bashir Agboola, Managing Partner at Interdym and former Hospital for Special Surgery executive, specializes in AI strategy and operationalizing digital investments. He discusses ambient AI scribes that free clinician time. He explores predictive analytics for personalized care. He emphasizes structured governance to turn digital spend into measurable clinical and financial performance.
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Operationalize AI To Translate Investment Into Impact
- AI must be operationalized, not just deployed, to convert cloud, data, and AI spend into workflow integration and financial performance.
- Interdym focuses on tying AI, cloud, and cyber investments to clinician workflows and patient experience to realize measurable impact.
Healthcare Can Lead When Solving Clinician Pain
- Healthcare isn't always a tech laggard; in AI use cases like ambient transcription the industry has led adoption due to urgent clinician pain points.
- Bashir contrasts typical laggard narrative with rapid ambient scribe uptake driven by burnout reduction.
Ambient Scribes Deliver Rapid Clinician Time Back
- Ambient AI scribes have become one of the fastest-adopted technologies because they reduce clinician time on documentation and improve patient interaction quality.
- The AI listens to clinician–patient conversations and inserts clinically relevant content into the medical record.