S1, E31 - Reflections 4: What Does the Infrastructure Actually Look Like?

About this episode

Steve and Leon reflect on insights from five guests across different healthcare domains regarding the current state of AI infrastructure.

Every five episodes, Steve and Leon step back to examine what picture forms when you put their guest conversations side by side. This time, five guests from completely different healthcare domains -- data quality, clinical trials, medical translation, patient data, participatory medicine -- independently converged on the same conclusion: the AI works; the infrastructure around it doesn't yet. From Charlie Harp's data quality metrics to Adam Blum's 60-to-90% scaffolding story to Amy Price's reframing of healthcare AI as "unfinished, not broken," Block 4 reveals what industry maturation actually looks like -- not a breakthrough, but a quiet shift in what the conversation is about.

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Hosts: Steven Labkoff, MD, Leon Rozenblit, JD, PhD

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• data quality
• clinical trials
• medical translation
• patient data
• participatory medicine

Keywords

• AI
• healthcare
• infrastructure
• data quality
• clinical trials
• patient data
• participatory medicine

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