Bob Wachter

Pierre Elias, cardiologist and AI medical director, and Bob Wachter, UCSF medicine chair and author, discuss how AI is being integrated into healthcare. They explore AI screening with ECGs, ambient AI scribes that reduce clinician burden, EHR dominance and data challenges, regulation and platform battles, and risks like de-skilling and governance.

Pierre Elias, a cardiologist leading cardiovascular AI screening, and Bob Wachter, a medicine chair and author on AI in healthcare, discuss how AI is being deployed in hospitals. They explore ECG-based screening that spots hidden heart disease, AI scribes that restore doctor time, platform battles around EHRs, regulation challenges, and risks like clinician de-skilling.

Bob Wachter, physician and author who chairs medicine at UCSF, explores how AI could reshape clinical work and health systems. He recounts lessons from electronic health record rollouts. He discusses digital scribes, where AI might save time but not automatically cut costs. He weighs bias risks, data and staffing needs, and a future where routine care is automated while humans handle complex cases.

Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF, discusses the promise and pitfalls of AI in healthcare. Topics include AI's empathy, predictive models, consolidation of EHRs, de-skilling of clinicians, use cases like digital scribes, concerns about bias, and the role of AI in medicine. The conversation explores trust, accuracy, and human oversight in AI-generated medical content.

Bob Wachter, MD, UCSF Chair of Medicine and author of The Digital Doctor, reflects on why AI could outpace a failing healthcare system. He discusses Watson's missteps, the rise of ambient scribes, human-in-the-loop design challenges, AI literacy for patients, and the need to compare AI to current alternatives. Short, provocative, and focused on practical change.