Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Driving Access and Trust in the Borderless Healthcare Era with Dr. Sarah Matt
Mar 29, 2026
Dr. Sarah Matt, physician leader, entrepreneur, and bestselling author focused on health tech strategy and access. She explores AI governance and outcomes-focused SLAs. She outlines five pillars of borderless healthcare access. She stresses how technology must earn clinician trust and urges leaders to keep evolving in a fast-moving landscape.
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From Surgeon To Health Tech Leader
- Sarah Matt transitioned from being a surgeon into tech leadership across startups and big firms like Oracle and NextGen.
- She worked on remote robotic surgery at Savado, OCI at Oracle, and critical access patient engagement at NextGen.
AI Governance Is The New Adoption Frontier
- AI governance is the central trend shaping healthcare adoption beyond just excitement about models and algorithms.
- Sarah Matt highlights shifting expectations from SLAs about uptime to SLAs tied to clinical outcomes and programmatic impact.
Tech Is Easy Adoption Is The Hard Part
- Technology is the easy part; real challenge is clinical adoption and integrating tools into workflows to improve outcomes.
- Sarah Matt stresses that no matter how good an algorithm is, frontline clinician buy-in is required to deliver patient value.
