Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Jigar Patel about the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.Dr. Patel serves as the Senior Director in Product Management for Healthcare at Orcal. Throughout this time, they have developed a deep understanding of the technical needs of healthcare, including AI based products. Dr. Patel is especially passionate about using electronic health records (EHR) and associated technologies to benchmark and improve outcomes across all medical specialties and venues of care.Listen along as Dr. Patel shares how AI is shaping modern healthcare.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on artificial intelligence, which is becoming quite a complicated issue in a variety of venues, but certainly has strong implications in the healthcare arena. We have a great guest with us. We'll get to that in just a second.
I want to, first of all, thank our illustrious crew, Maddie Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard, who do wonderful behind-the-scenes work for us, providing Clarence and I with some good background research and ideas to talk about on all our shows. So thank you. Thank you a lot to you guys. Sheridan also helps us with our marketing.
And then Matthew Campbell is our production manager. Make sure that these shows get out to you, the listening audience, in a crisp, clear way. So thank you to everybody. Then, of course, there's Clarence, where we do this hand-in-hand. And we've realized that, boy, we know a lot of people in the healthcare arena. So we've had a lot of guests on our shows.
And it's been a wonderful, wonderful experience. So thank you, Clarence. You're a good voice to the healthcare arena and thanks for being with us. Then in addition, Human Partnership is our sponsor for these shows, great community engagement group in Minnesota. And they are involved in a lot of great health related issues at the community level.
We thank them dearly for being our sponsor for these shows. You can check them out at humanpartnership.org. So with that, we're going to get into artificial intelligence. And we've got a great guest with us today who actually came to my attention through a colleague of ours, Arkel Georgiou, and connections through Oracle.
And apparently, Dr. Patel's team owns an Oracle strategy, and he can talk about that, an AI strategy, a little bit. But I'll let him introduce himself, and then we'll get going. Dr. Patel.
Yes, thanks, Stan. Thanks, Clarence. Thanks, team, for having me. My name's Dr. Jigar Patel, as Stan said. I've been at Cerner, now Oracle, 16 plus years. And I started as a pathologist. Transfusion medicine was my subspecialty in clinical practice. I was at the University of Kansas Medical Center before joining Cerner. Kind of lucky happenstance in my career. I was in Kansas City.
Cerner was based in Kansas City. I have an engineering undergraduate, so I was kind of, and as a pathologist, always involved in informatics. In most of my time at Cerner, I was on the client side. I did sales, implementations, the whole nine yards of client interactions, led various groups from a chief medical officer responsibility
And then eight years ago, I finally dove into product management and joined a team that is composed almost entirely, which is composed entirely, except for myself, of legacy Oracle people. So I was a stranger in a strange land. I was the only clinician in the group. And I was the only legacy Cerner guy in the group.
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