The Signal Room | AI in Healthcare & Ethical AI
Welcome to The Signal Room, your go-to podcast for expert insights on ethical AI, AI strategy, and AI governance in healthcare and beyond. Hosted by Chris Hutchins, this show explores leadership strategies, responsible AI development, and real-world implementation challenges faced by healthcare AI leaders. Each episode features deep conversations covering healthcare AI innovation, executive decision-making, regulatory compliance, and how to build trustworthy AI systems that transform clinical and operational realities.
Whether you are an AI strategist, healthcare executive, or AI enthusiast committed to ethical leadership, The Signal Room equips you with the knowledge and tools to lead AI transformation effectively and responsibly.
Join us to learn from industry experts and healthcare leaders navigating the evolving landscape of AI governance, leadership ethics, and AI readiness.
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Episodes
24 episodes
The AI Shutdown is Here: Why Most Projects Will Fail in 2026 | AI Governance & Ethical AI Strategy with Andre Samokish
In this timely episode of The Signal Room, host Chris Hutchins speaks with AI governance and privacy expert Andre Samokish about the looming AI shutdown in 2026 and why most AI projects will fail without strong governance, ethical frameworks, a...
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Episode 24
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42:47
Good People Are Quietly Quitting: Ethical Leadership, AI Strategy & Why Culture Determines AI Success | Carly Caminiti
Ethical leadership failures are quietly driving your best people out the door. Carly Caminiti joins Chris Hutchins to explore the intersection of AI leadership strategies, organizational culture, and why ethical leadership is the foundation tha...
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Episode 23
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49:25
Healthcare Experts on Ethical AI in Operational Reality: AI Transformation Strategies and Healthcare Innovation | Markeisha Snaith
Healthcare experts are redefining what AI transformation strategies look like inside real health systems. MarKeisha Snaith joins Chris Hutchins to share how healthcare innovation and ethical AI converge in the daily operational reality of clini...
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Episode 22
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53:14
Healthcare AI and Rare Disease Caregiving: Why Patient Advocates Deserve a Seat at the Table | Amanda Roser
What happens when the healthcare system was not designed for the complexity your family lives with every day? Amanda Roser knows. As the mother of a child diagnosed with glycogen storage disease type zero, a rare genetic metabolic disorder, Ama...
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Episode 21
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50:28
AI Regulation in ER and Clinical Judgment: Why AI Tools Must Be Designed for 3 AM, Not 3 PM | Dr. Natasha Dole
Understand AI regulation and its impact on emergency healthcare alongside the enduring value of clinical judgment. Dr. Natasha Dole examines ethical leadership in healthcare AI.Emergency departments expose every weakness in AI systems be...
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Episode 20
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44:18
Enterprise AI Journey: Agentic AI, Generative AI and Data Foundations in Healthcare | Gary Cao
What does it actually mean when an organization says it is on an AI journey? In most cases, according to Gary Cao, it means a vague intention and a handful of disconnected projects, without a holistic framework or a roadmap for the next three t...
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Episode 19
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42:06
From AI Strategy to Execution: Ethical Leadership, Trust and the Operational Reality of Healthcare AI | Brian Sutherland
Why do so many healthcare AI pilots stall before reaching enterprise scale? Brian Sutherland has seen the pattern from inside some of the largest healthcare organizations in the country. As an elite AI product manager and advisor focused on cus...
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Episode 18
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40:56
Why AI Verification Is the Real Bottleneck in Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery | David Finkelshteyn
AI can now search through a vastly wider grid of possible compounds and molecules than any human team could evaluate in a lifetime. The bottleneck is no longer discovery speed. It is verification. David Finkelshteyn, CEO of Pivotal AI, builds A...
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Episode 17
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37:41
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No Alerts, Still Breached: Ethical Leadership in AI Security and Why Undetected Cyberattacks Threaten Healthcare AI Governance | Guman Chauhan
Ethical leadership in AI security means confronting the threats your systems cannot see. This episode explores why undetected cyberattacks represent the most dangerous risk for organizations deploying AI in healthcare and enterprise environment...
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Episode 16
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34:04
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Healthcare Leadership: Balancing AI, Human Judgment and Clinical Trust | Dr. Mark Gendreau
What does it actually take to scale care responsibly with AI, not by replacing clinicians, but by amplifying them? Dr. Mark Gendreau has spent his career at the intersection where urgency meets innovation. As an emergency medicine physician and...
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Episode 15
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34:13
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AI Healthcare Leadership and Strategy: From Hype to Real Value | Parth Gargish
AI organizations are breeding like mushrooms, but how many of them are solving real problems? Parth Gargish, CEO of NetSmarts, has spent two decades building custom software and SaaS products, with a focused AI practice dating back to 2016. His...
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Episode 14
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25:48
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Healthcare AI and Leadership Challenges with Medical Records | Aleida Lanza
Every patient portal only reports a very small fraction of your actual health record. The full corpus, including every image, every itemized bill, every clinical note across every provider, remains fragmented, inaccessible, and expensive to acq...
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Episode 13
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15:47
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Ethical AI and Leadership in Healthcare: Building Responsibility into the Ways of Working | Asha Mahesh
Ethics and responsibility in AI is not something you write a paper and forget about. It is not about a paper or some writing. It is about building the ways of working. Asha Mahesh is a technologist at the intersection of AI, ethics, and life sc...
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Episode 12
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21:57
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Human-Centered AI Governance and Just Culture in Healthcare Leadership | Susie Brannigan
Healthcare organizations cannot be technologically ready if they are not emotionally ready first. Susie Brannigan, a trauma-informed nurse executive and AI ethics advocate, has spent her career helping healthcare leaders rebuild trust, shift cu...
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Episode 7
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38:29
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Data Governance and Trust Infrastructure for Scaling AI | Amit Shivpuja
Amit Shivpuja reveals governance and data lineage infrastructures essential for healthcare AI trust and leadership accountability.Amit, as Director of Data and AI Enablement at Walmart, exposes the systems and practices that operate bene...
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Episode 11
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15:28
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Healthcare AI Security Risks and Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges | Anitha Mareedu
Healthcare AI security risks demand attention as organizations deploy AI systems without fully understanding how to protect them. Anitha Mareedu, a cybersecurity and network security professional with experience spanning advertising, social med...
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Episode 10
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18:58
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AI Explainability, Algorithmic Bias, and Human-in-the-Loop Design in Healthcare | Keshavan Seshadri
AI explainability, algorithmic bias, and human-in-the-loop design are the three pillars that determine whether healthcare AI systems can be trusted. Keshavan Seshadri, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Prudential Financial, builds machine lea...
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Episode 9
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28:23
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AI and Language Access in Healthcare: Communication Equity and Patient Safety | Carol Velandia
Language access in healthcare is not an administrative convenience. It is a patient safety imperative. Carol Velandia, founder of Equal Access Language Services, has built her career around eliminating language-based discrimination in healthcar...
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Episode 8
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30:35
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Data Quality and AI Strategy: The Rising Cost of Ignoring Data Governance | Danette McGilvray
Data quality is not just a technical problem. It is a strategic and ethical leadership issue that determines whether AI deployments succeed or cause real-world harm. Danette McGilvray, President of Granite Falls Consulting and author of Executi...
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Episode 6
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45:38
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Tailoring AI Strategy for Healthcare Leaders: Product Adoption and AI Literacy | Ritu Chakrawarty
AI strategy for healthcare leaders requires more than selecting the right technology. It demands a framework for adoption that starts with value, tests for viability, and designs solutions that fit into existing workflows rather than disrupting...
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Episode 5
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23:55
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The Human-AI Leadership Equation in Healthcare: Trust, Psychological Safety, and the Seven Dimensions of Credible Authenticity with Dr. Larry Kuhn
Healthcare AI leadership demands trust, and the data reveals a crisis. Only 25% of employees say they trust their CEO, and just 21% strongly trust their organization. In this episode of The Signal Room, host Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CE...
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Episode 4
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30:12
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Healthcare Data Readiness and AI Adoption: Why 85% of Organizations Aren't Prepared |Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee
Healthcare data readiness is the real bottleneck in AI adoption, and 80 to 85 percent of organizations are not prepared. In this episode of The Signal Room, host Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants, sits ...
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Episode 3
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32:45
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Redefining the Patient-Physician Journey with AI: Dr. Barry Chaiken on Trust, Interoperability, and the Future of Healthcare 2050
Healthcare AI governance, algorithmic bias, and the future of the patient-physician relationship converge in this episode of The Signal Room. Host Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants, continues his conver...
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Episode 2
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29:06
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Redefining the Patient-Physician Journey with AI: Dr. Barry Chaiken on Ambient Listening, Automation Bias, and Revolutionary Health IT
Patient-physician AI transformation, physician burnout solutions, and the hidden dangers of automation bias take center stage in this episode of The Signal Room. Host Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants, ...
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Episode 1
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