Designing for Health: Shreya Shah, MD | Healthcare Informatics Leader at Stanford Medicine | AI’s expanding role beyond note-taking

Nordic Chief Medical Officer Craig Joseph, MD, talks with Shreya Shah, MD, healthcare informatics leader at Stanford Medicine. They discuss her path into clinical informatics, and the role of AI in reducing clinician burnout. They also discuss the need to balance AI integration with clinical judgment, emphasizing that AI should serve as a support tool to enhance rather than replace clinical reasoning and decision-making.

Show Notes:

[00:00] Intros

[00:26] Background and career path

[01:00] Path into clinical informatics

[04:06] Importance of workflow in health IT

[05:03] Implementation science

[06:12] Intro to Ambient AI in clinical settings

[10:31] Patient and doctor comfort with technology

[19:15] Balancing AI

[22:32] Rapid evolution of AI tools

[38:53] Shreya’s favorite well-designed thing

[40:32] Outros

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