In this episode of the Stanford AI and Healthcare podcast, hosts Matt Lungren and Justin Norden interview Dr. Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF and author of The Digital Doctor and The Giant Leap.

Learn more about Stanford's Healthcare AI programs: https://stanford.io/3NEt7uE

This episode explores the rapid, bottom‑up adoption of AI in healthcare, featuring co-founder and general partner at Town Hall Ventures and former CMS (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) administrator Andy Slavitt. Along with hosts Justin Norden and Matt Lungren, Andy discusses the evolving LLM landscape, why many clinicians use AI daily despite organizational resistance, and why leaders can’t delegate AI literacy. They examine regulatory challenges, CMS’s new access model that directly rewards effective AI, and how the same tools doctors use are empowering patients to manage their own health.

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Learn more about Stanford's Healthcare AI programs: https://stanford.io/3NEt7uE

Matt Lungren, Stanford University - https://profiles.stanford.edu/matthew...
Justin Norden, Stanford University - https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/jus...
Guest Speaker: Andy Slavitt, Co-Founder and General Partner at Town Hall Ventures