A Giant Leap for Healthcare: Dr. Bob Wachter on AI, Clinical Workflows and the Patient-Doctor Relationship
About this episode
Dr. Bob Wachter discusses his extensive career and insights into the healthcare system, technology, and the evolution of the patient-doctor relationship.
Dr. Bob Wachter describes his career as the result of “what happens when a political science major becomes an academic physician.” Rather than focus on one specialty or scientific domain, he became fascinated by the healthcare system itself and has spent more than 40 years examining how care is organized, where it breaks down, and how technology can help make it better. The author of more than 300 articles and six books, Dr. Wachter famously coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996, helping give...
Topics covered
- AI
- clinical workflows
- patient-doctor relationship
- healthcare system
Keywords
- hospitalist
- healthcare organization
- technology in healthcare
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