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This is Grace Lim Keller with the Becker's

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Healthcare Podcast, and we are live at the

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9th annual health IT, digital health, and RCM

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conference.

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I'm joined right now by doctor George Cibulski,

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who is a clinical AI leader at Humboldt

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Park Health. So, doctor Przybylski, thanks so much

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for joining me today. We'd love to have

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you start off by introducing yourself a little

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bit further and telling us about all the

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things that you are into. Well, thank you

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so much for having me. So I am

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a neurosurgeon

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by, training and experience,

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but I have,

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recently over the past,

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2 years been more interested in seeing how,

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artificial intelligence

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can increase value in my care of patients.

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So I've,

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done some courses on it and have I'm

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working on,

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constructing a

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use case

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for evaluating,

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lower back pain in the emergency department.

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Awesome. Well, you're the perfect candidate for our

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conversation today, and we're gonna start with AI

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adoption that's exploding right now in health care.

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So I'd love to hear in your view

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what is the most significant or promising application

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of this technology, and how is this informing

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your innovation strategy?

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Well, thanks. Yeah. AI

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has the ability to interact with every

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part of our delivery process in health care.

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working backward

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from what I would be doing, which is

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evaluating a patient,

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we could prescreen

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the patient that I am evaluating

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to make sure that we get the most

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value out of my actual physical face to

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face evaluation of that patient.

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Working backward from that, when when the patient

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is scheduled to see me,

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AI could help by asking those same kind

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of questions to make sure

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this patient has an appropriate referral to see

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a specialist for their back pain. For example,

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if a person is had newly developed back

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pain over a few days,

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they probably don't need to see a neurosurgeon

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right off the bat.

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If they've likewise, if they've had back pain

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a few years,

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we would like to know before seeing them

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have what kind of treatment they've had. Have

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they have they had diagnostic

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tests? What those have showed?

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And I see AI as a way to

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gather that information by asking the most relevant

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questions for that patient

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really putting that that those answers into an

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algorithm,

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which gets that patient to see

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a specialist or to do some,

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conservative management like physical therapy beforehand.

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And switching gears just slightly to the data

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side of things. Healthcare leaders are managing greater

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volumes of data and more devices across a

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growing number of care settings.

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And this has become a very complex environment.

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So what clinical data integration tools or practices

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are you seeing drive improvements

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in patient outcomes?

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to have a AI

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enhancement of the electronic medical record, I think,

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is is really the essential or critical way

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to help keep track of all of those

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of health care. For example, if I see

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on their spine,

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hopefully, with AI, we would be able to

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know that that patient would be preauthorized

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to have that procedure,

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and we could get that procedure then scheduled

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in the most expeditious fashion.

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innovation,

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AI adoption,

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greater volumes of data, we see the burden

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on our IT teams

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become much greater.

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So I'd love to hear how you think

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health care organizations can better support our IT

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teams and also our clinical teams as we're

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carrying out these innovation efforts.

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Well, a conference just like now at Becker's,

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I've been interacting with various

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organizations

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that really apply some out of the box

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solutions

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for pre authorization,

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for revenue

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cycle,

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and for actual clinical diagnosis. So I think

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the beauty of of

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a program

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such as, we're attending today is that it

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shows a clinician like me

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things that I can share with, the people

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I work with in information technology back at

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Humboldt Park Health

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to make their work easier.

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And then as we wrap up our conversation

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today, I would love to know your top

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piece of advice for health care leaders as

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they prepare for further advancements in technology and

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greater demands for care.

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Well, it's a it's gonna be a challenge

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because we're going to have

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to continue

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to learn and be open to learning,

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and we have to learn

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how various solutions that will be proposed

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by organizations that I've talked with today,

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how much their value will really contribute to

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our organizations.

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And, it's the same as, with instituting any

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other type of program in a hospital

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with supplies and things like that? Are we

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getting the the best value for the investment?

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And I understand you're an author. You've written

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a book as well. So do you wanna

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share a little bit about that piece of

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work? Well, thanks, Grace. Yes. I'm very,

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happy to say that this year, my book

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called can we manage

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to save health care was released on Amazon

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and became a number one bestseller. The premise

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of the book is is to look at

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all of the challenges,

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socioeconomic,

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delivery,

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electronic medical record to look at these challenges

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to

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to be frank about how we need to

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overcome some of the challenges they present to

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our giving value to patient care.

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Well, thank you so much for joining me

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today on the Becker's health care podcast.

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Again, we're live at the 9th annual Health

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IT Digital Health and RCM conference.

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Thank you. Thank you. It's been my pleasure.