Building an Enterprise AI Strategy at Jefferson Health

We are looking at expanding access to care and making it easier for clinicians to provide the care, returning the 10 million hours to patient care and not focused on where can we use AI and cut somebody's job.

Hello, and welcome to episode 13 of Healthcare AI Pioneers.

This is a podcast that explores the latest innovations and strategies that clinicians and health systems are implementing using healthcare AI.

I'm your host, Dr. Jesse Pines.

In this episode, we'll be chatting with the leaders from Jefferson Health.

The focus is on how they're using AI to reduce administrative burden, strengthen governance, and improve patient care.

The team is building a scalable strategy for the future at Jefferson Health.

We've got three outstanding guests today to give us the rundown and we'll meet them in just a moment.

But first, we'll begin with, as always, a recent headline.

Open Evidence and Boston Children's Hospital have launched a multi-year collaboration to study how clinicians' use of AI at the point of care influences care delivery patterns.

As a part of the initiative, Open Evidence's AI platform will be integrated into the hospital's EHR, allowing researchers to analyze aggregated, anonymized clinician data while preserving patient privacy.

The partnership builds on OpenEvidence's growing collaborations with leading health systems and medical organizations aimed at expanding evidence-based tools for clinicians.

We'll absolutely be keeping an eye out for how this collaboration pans out.

Now let's meet our guests.

First up is Dr. Jud Hollander.

Jud is the Senior Vice President of Healthcare Delivery Innovation at and Chief Virtual Care Officer at Jefferson Health.

He's also a professor of emergency medicine.

Judd's been a friend and colleague of mine for more than 20 years.

I'm delighted to have him and his team on the podcast today.

Welcome to Healthcare AI Pioneers, Judd.

Well, thanks, Jesse.

Happy to be here with you.

I will correct one thing you said.

It's not my team.

We have a huge team at Jefferson.

Everybody does their own thing.

I have no ownership.

I have great colleagues.

Great.

That's a great point.

Next up is Dr. Bracken Babula.

Bracken is an Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Jefferson Health.

He's also an internal medicine physician who's been practicing outpatient primary care at Jefferson since 2014 and is a clinical associate professor in medicine.

Welcome to the podcast, Bracken.

Thanks for having me, Jesse.

Finally, let's welcome in Dr. Jennifer Stevens.

Jennifer serves as Enterprise Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Quality and Population Health at Jefferson Health, as well as Chief Medical Officer for the Jefferson Medical Group.

Welcome to Healthcare AI Pioneers, Jennifer.

Thanks, Jesse.

Happy to be here.