Ambience CEO Nikhil Buduma on AI in Clinical Workflows

About this episode

Julie Yoo interviews Nikhil Buduma about the impact of AI on clinical workflows and the evolution of Ambience Healthcare.

a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They cover the early days of deep learning, why Ambience started by running a medical practice before building a platform company, and what it takes to achieve high clinician adoption rates at major academic medical centers. They also dig into the challenge of building products when AI capabilities change every few months, the real ROI that's finally converting CFOs, and why this might be the moment to reimagine the legacy EHR stack.

People in this episode

Host: Julie Yoo

Guest: Nikhil Buduma

Topics covered

• AI
• clinical workflows
• deep learning
• medical practice
• EHR

Keywords

• AI
• clinical workflows
• deep learning
• EHR
• medical practice
• clinician adoption
• ROI

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Organizations: Ambience Healthcare

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