Practical AI in Healthcare: Leon Rozenblit of the QED Institute (S1, E1)

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, it marked a turning point in the global conversation around artificial intelligence. Virtually overnight, industries across the board began exploring how Generative AI could transform the way we work, think, and solve problems. Healthcare was no exception. From improving clinical workflows and accelerating research, to empowering patients and supporting care decisions, the entire ecosystem began to imagine a future radically reshaped by AI.

Fast forward to today: the buzz hasn't faded—but the outcomes are still catching up.

Despite a flood of announcements, pilot programs, and innovation initiatives, truly impactful AI implementations in healthcare remain surprisingly rare. The promise was huge. The follow-through? Often underwhelming. For a sector where lives are at stake and progress must be both ethical and measurable, the gap between hype and real-world utility is especially stark.

That’s why we launched Practical AI in Healthcare.

This podcast is dedicated to surfacing the ideas, projects, and tools that are actually working—today. Not speculative futures or marketing sizzle, but grounded, proven use cases of AI making meaningful change across the healthcare landscape.

Each episode features candid conversations with the people driving that change: healthcare leaders, technologists, clinicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, and authors of the latest books and peer-reviewed articles. Together, we explore how they're applying AI to solve real problems—in clinical care, clinical trials, diagnostics, operations, public health, and beyond. We dig into the details: What challenge are they addressing? What did implementation really take? What resistance did they face—and how did they overcome it? Most importantly, what impact are they seeing?

In this pilot episode, co-hosts Dr. Steven Labkoff and Dr. Leon Rozinblit introduce the vision behind the podcast and lay the groundwork for future conversations. They discuss why now is the right moment for this kind of show, what defines a “practical” AI solution in healthcare, and how listeners—regardless of their role in the industry—can use these insights to inform their own work.

New episodes drop every other week. If you're tired of inflated promises and looking instead for signal in the noise—join us.