What Does Good AI in Healthcare Look Like? CHAI CEO Brian Anderson Is Trying to Get Every Hospital in America to Agree

What Does Good AI in Healthcare Look Like? CHAI CEO Brian Anderson Is Trying to Get Every Hospital in America to Agree

July 16, 2026 · 31 min · Season 1 · Episode 87

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Dr. Graham Walker interviews Dr. Brian Anderson about the role of AI in healthcare and the efforts of CHAI to improve AI tools in hospitals.

Dr. Brian Anderson is a pediatrician turned CEO of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) , the organization behind the push to give every AI tool in your EHR something like a nutrition label: what it was trained on, who trained it, and where it might fail. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Brian to trace his path from a Mass General exam room, where a clunky EHR rollout first pushed him toward building technology instead of just using it, to running a coalition of more than 3,000 organizations trying to agree on one deceptively hard question: what does good AI in healthcare actually look like. They also break two major pieces of news together, live on the show. OpenAI and Anthropic are donating thousands of AI licenses to public health agencies through CHAI, aimed at rebuilding trust in digital tools after decades of underinvestment. And CHAI is launching a health sector specific version of Anthropic's Project Glasswing, bringing serious cybersecurity firepower to the industry Brian calls the most attacked critical infrastructure in the country. Graham and Brian also get into what "human in the loop" should really mean for a working physician, why…

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