“We have accepted making health decisions with only 20% of the data.”

Hospitals can save a life in a crisis. They can stabilize, diagnose, intervene, and provide exceptional care in our most vulnerable moments, but we need more than hospitals can provide. By the time most people need that level of care, they’ve already spent years under the influence of other forces shaping their wellbeing.

The future of healthcare can’t be only inside clinics, hospitals, or electronic records. It has to include the realities of daily life. It also has to acknowledge that more data doesn’t automatically mean better care. Information is useful when it’s connected, interpreted thoughtfully, and applied in ways that honor each person’s unique context, values, and capacity for change.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, physician executive and author of Intelligent Health, to explore what it would take to redesign healthcare around prevention, personalization, and true consumer ownership. We talk about why clinical care represents only one piece of the health equation, how AI and predictive tools could help identify risk earlier, why fragmented data limits progress, the true costs of emerging technologies, misaligned financial incentives in healthcare, and why clinicians must have a voice in shaping the systems being built around our patients and communities.

Enjoy the episode, and let's innovate and integrate together!

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