#446: Is AI giving clinicians empathy back?

About this episode

James discusses the impact of AI on clinician empathy and healthcare communication with Dr Kishan Rees.

This week, James is joined by Dr Kishan Rees, Senior Director for Global Video & Digital Content Strategy at Bayer, to unpack why healthcare's communication problem is now its biggest patient-safety problem. They get into medical misinformation, why patients are turning to AI chatbots over clinicians, and what pharma can learn from broadcast journalism. Connect with Kishan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkishanrees/ Learn more about Bayer: https://www.bayer.com Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com This podcast was brought to you by SomX.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. James Somauroo

Guest: Dr Kishan Rees

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• patient safety
• medical misinformation
• healthcare communication
• AI chatbots
• pharma and journalism

Keywords

• AI
• clinicians
• empathy
• healthcare
• patient safety
• medical misinformation
• AI chatbots
• Bayer

Sponsors

SomX

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bayer

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