AI + Clinical Workforce

March 27, 2025

As AI systems continue to evolve into more sophisticated systems and healthcare faces real challenges of clinical burnout and work overload, the conversation of how to integrate these two worlds is essential. Our Wave Labs event brought together over 125 people representing 60+ organizations to tackle this wicked problem. In contemplating the possibilities of AI + Clinical Workforce, four entrepreneurs that are pushing the boundaries and providing a signal through the noise joined Wave Labs to share their visions of the future.

Dr Rishi Khakhkhar, Counsel Health : “Magic moments” in healthcare are when a clinician and patient reach a shared understanding that improves the patient’s health and life. Rishi believes that AI should help create more of these "magic moments" by reducing cognitive overload (eg. documentation, data retrieval, etc) and unlocking previously unimaginable capabilities such as real-time multilingual communication via async text/voice and the integration of wearable data. 

Matt Ko, DeepScribe : After experiencing the negative effects of administrative burdens from the perspective of a patient’s family, Matt envisioned a healthcare system unconstrained by documentation. This vision includes alleviating provider burnout from entering lengthy data and eliminating the limitations of documentation being what clinicians’ over-worked brains can remember from conversations. Matt continues to push the boundaries by using DeepScribe to help “reimagine the way that information is harvested” with an ambient operating system to not only record every patient conversation but to also anticipate rather than just ask questions to proactively surface relevant data. 

Maxime Allouch, Vera Health : With the volume of medical knowledge doubling every three days, Maxime believes the power of this vast amount of work can be best harnessed through AI algorithms to organize and instantly deliver the information to the clinicians at the point of care. Maxime’s vision is for a specialist in rural Montana and a clinician at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to have equal access to medical information to empower them both in creating the best plans of care. To this end, Vera Health is now a free, universally accessible tool available to every provider in the nation. 

Dr Kader Mate, Qualified Health : AI will infiltrate all clinician workflows – from decision support to scribing to bed turnover. At this critical juncture of AI adoption, it is important for tech to mold to provider preferences and processes as well as align with existing tools. On the other hand, Kedar believes that for AI + Clinical Workforce to meet its maximum potential, clinical training must also evolve to include prompt engineering and workflow authoring.

With massive energy in the vendor market for AI + Clinical Workforce tools and technology builders who are focused on frontline users, the panelists and Dr Prabhjot Singh, Peterson Health Technology Institute recommended organizations establish governance bodies that demand speed because the pace of tech changes rapidly. Of equal importance is open dialogue between health system leaders and entrepreneurs during this dynamic time to characterize the solution set while creating disruptive innovations. 

As discussed during the event, Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released a comprehensive report on AI adoption in healthcare. This report provides concrete applications of AI for your organization.

Part One - Wave Labs : AI + Clinical Workforce

Part Two - Wave Labs : AI + Clinical Workforce