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All right, Timmy, let's go big picture here.

They got two games before the bye, but more importantly, two games before the NFL trade deadline.

Thank you so much for tuning into the Becker's Healthcare podcast.

Today, we're going to talk about intent, integration, impact, Jefferson Health's operating model for AI in real care.

Joining me for this discussion is Dr. Patricia Henwood, Executive Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer with Jefferson Health.

Dr. Henwood, thank you so much for being here today.

Can you introduce yourself to our audience and tell them a little bit about yourself and the work you're doing now?

Yeah, Brian, thank you so much for having me.

Glad to be here today.

As you mentioned, I'm the chief clinical officer at Jefferson Health.

The injuries he suffered as a result of the surgery that he later determined he did not need ruined his NFL career, and he has filed a $300 million lawsuit against the doctor that performed the surgery as well as against the facility where the surgery was performed, claiming that that he was misled into believing he even needed the surgery to begin with and that they botched it in the middle.

So he's suing Jefferson Health and well-known surgeon Dr. William Myers.

Myers is the one who pioneered this Myers repair that involves reattaching certain muscles in the core abdominal area to give you that six-pack look.

Oh, that's what I need.

They have to know

somebody within Jefferson Health,

right? Yeah, but you'd feel safe putting that person in front of Jeff McClain? Sure.

Really?

I spend most of my time thinking about what AI can actually do for doctors on the front lines of primary care, which makes today's conversation a very personal one for me because my dear friend Dave Nichols is with us.

Dr. Nichols is a family physician who finished residency in 2023 and is already medical director at Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Nichols works on bringing AI into the clinical workflows along with a builder's mindset to primary care.

So today we're gonna talk about how a doctor this early in his career ends up landing at a system this size what it takes to roll out AI tools that clinicians actually keep using, why primary care doctors should be building and not just adopting, and how we might rebuild the pipeline into the specialty that holds everything else up.

no i think they probably want to see how this goes the rest because if it yeah If Nick is gone and Jalen is gone, which are both two very real possibilities, that is something you want to make with a decision you'll make with a level head, not after four losses.

Because there is, I could see them at the complex, the Jefferson Health complex, pointing to year from hell.

There is an argument to be made from an injury year from hell, and Howie won't say this publicly, but also say, hey, look, I made some bets that didn't pay off as well.

Where he's holding himself accountable in this whole picture as well, listen, they've gone through worse seasons than what we've gone through so far, and they didn't make those major changes until the end, maybe with a game left, sometimes after the season was over with.