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December 3, 2024 32 mins

Don’t miss this enlightening interview with Dr. Matthew Lungren, where he shares incredible insights about balancing technology in healthcare. 

 

Dr. Lungren is the Chief Scientific Officer of Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft, and is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. 

 

Sherri Douville, CEO of Medigram & Chair of the TTIC, Dr. Apurv Gupta and I spoke with Dr. Lungren about his journey at Stanford and Microsoft, and how his work in medicine and tech shapes the approach to his work. 

 

Dr. Lungren truly embraces the possibility for technologies like generative AI in healthcare, but emphasizes the need for it to be safe and secure to enter mainstream healthcare.

 

Dr. Lungren clearly shares how important it is for all stakeholders to be involved in healthcare technology decisions, reminding decision makers that there’s a human life at the end of the solution change. 

 

Be sure to watch or listen to this interview - there are so many important takeaways for those faced with these decisions on both the technological and clinical sides.

 

Connect with Dr. Lungren: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattlungrenmd/  

 

Learn more about Microsoft’s Pegasus program for startups: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/pegasus 

 

Learn more about Medigram: https://www.medigram.com

 

Learn more about TTIC: https://medium.com/@news_52674/about 

 

Topical time codes:

1:55 (Dr. Lungren) - Journey to Microsoft & balancing the weight of decisions between patients and technology

7:17 (Dr. Lungren) - Speech to text technology & bringing things successfully into the healthcare ecosystem 

9:18 -  ambient technology 

11:59 (Sherri) - frameworks & accelerating trust at the system level

15:08 (Dr. Lungren) - To stay on course with Generative AI, must Importance of multi-disciplinary teams, understanding use cases, gravity of work they’re doing 

Safe, responsible way to implement

22:13 (Dr. Lungren) - How to evaluate what is safe, ready, and can make it into mainstream healthcare 

26:19 - guardrails 

28:25 - What physician executives need to properly vet the technology 

30:21 - startups & Microsoft Pegasus program

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