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Agentic Patient 9: She built an AI companion for breast cancer patients - and won't upload her records to ChatGPT
"I am actually quite wildly uncomfortable with patients using LLMs." She built an AI companion for breast cancer patients — and she means it. Ellyn Winters-Robinson was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2022, months before ChatGPT launched. She wrote a book about it on her iPhone during chemothe
Agentic Patient 8: Why an AI Founder Won't Trust Chatbots With Her Own Health
In this episode of The Agentic Patient, a Faces of Digital Health series on how patients are using AI to find answers the healthcare system didn't give them, Tjasa Zajc talks to Elena Ikonomovska, CEO and Co-Founder of Diadia Health. She stopped trusting chatbots with her own health data — after bui
Will robots help us age at home? A historian who lives with one says not yet (Emily Kate Genatowski)
The viral robot videos are choreography, not capability. A historian who has lived with a humanoid robot for a year explains what they still can't do. Emily Kate Genatowski is a historian and AI domestic robotics researcher who bought a humanoid robot, lived with it for over a year, and turned the e
Data challenges with AI: Omissions, bloated problem lists and unnecessary token burn
Hallucination is not the biggest risk in clinical AI. Omission is — and it is far harder to detect. John Laursen, SVP at IMO Health, has spent his career on the layer of healthcare AI that gets the least attention: clinical terminology and the semantic data infrastructure underneath every model depl
Who Fills The Gap After OpenEvidence Left Europe (Philippe Habets, EvidenceHunt)
OpenEvidence didn't leave Europe because of regulation alone — its ad-and-data business model never fit the European market. When OpenEvidence, the $12B clinical AI search platform used daily by over 40% of US physicians, withdrew from the EU and UK in April 2026 citing the EU AI Act, European clini
The AI Model Race Is Over. The Data Race in Healthcare Is Just Starting (Robert Tovornik, Better)
AI models are "eager to please" — and in healthcare, that's a liability. So what should LLMs never be allowed to do in clinical software? Three years after GPT-3 reached the public, frontier models have largely converged in capability. In this episode, Robert Tovornik, Innovation Lead at Better — th
Agentic Patient 7: How to Use AI as a Caregiver — Without Letting It Diagnose | Pratik Desai
AI couldn't cure his mother's stage 4 cancer. It caught three near-fatal errors, found a same-day appointment, and helped her leave on her own terms. When Pratik Desai's mother was diagnosed with stage four duodenal adenocarcinoma — a rare cancer with roughly 3,000 US cases a year — she was nearly d
We're Overestimating Medical AI — and Underestimating the Harm (Jessica Morley, Yale)
AI ethicist Jess Morley: these chatbots are giving medical advice — so regulate them as medical devices. Part of The Agentic Patient, a Faces of Digital Health series on how patients actually use AI — which tools, which prompts, which safeguards. In this episode, host Tjaša Zajc sits down with Dr Je
Healthcare AI Policy in 2026: Only 7 of 38 OECD Countries Have an AI Strategy
98% of patients welcome AI in their care — and still want a human in charge. That tension ran through the OECD and Spanish Ministry of Health conference on scaling AI in health (Madrid, late May 2026), and it frames this episode of Faces of Digital Health. Out of 38 OECD countries, only seven have a
Doctors are using ChatGPT in clinic and not all care about privacy (Health.Tech 2026)
Doctors are using ChatGPT in clinic right now — and some of them don't care about privacy. Three operators on what that means for healthcare AI. Recorded live at health.tech in Basel, this panel from Faces of Digital Health unpacks the convergence reshaping clinical software: ambient AI scribes, age
Aashima Gupta (Google Cloud): "Healthcare doesn't lack vision. It lacks courage."
Most conversations about agentic AI in healthcare get stuck on capability. This one is about the gap between capability and deployment — and what closes it. Aashima Gupta, Global Director of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions at Google Cloud, argues that healthcare's bottleneck isn't vision; it's cou
I Used AI for My Chronic Illness for a Year. Here's What Went Wrong. (Tjasa Zajc, Agentic Patient)
The Agentic Patient is here — and most healthcare systems don't have a plan for it. In this special reverse-role episode of Faces of Digital Health, Eric Sutherland interviews host Tjaša Zajc about what a year of using AI through her own chronic illness has actually taught her about patients, doctor
The Agentic Patient 4: Finding Insurance and Red Team Analysis
When Demetri Giannikopoulos was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, his community neurologist handed him a sheet with fifty medication options and told him to pick one. That was a long time ago. Today he's the Chief Innovation Officer at RadAI, overseeing how artificial intelligence gets deployed in
The Agentic Patient 3: When ChatGPT from Parents Meets Clinical AI Decision Support Systems
Diana Ferro works at a major pediatric hospital in Italy, working on AI infrastructure, rare diseases, and — importantly — the International Alliance of Pediatric Centers on AI. Unlike the patient voices earlier in the Agentic Patient series, she sits on the other side of the consulting-room door. H
The Agentic Patient 2: One Tool, One Job - Cancer management AI toolset
Russ was diagnosed with bowel cancer in late 2021 and simultaneously with smoldering myeloma, aged 40. The smoldering myeloma has been inactive; the bowel cancer has progressed through multiple surgeries (bowel, liver, lung) and is now stage 4, on active chemotherapy. He runs AI for the business he
The Agentic Patient 1: ChatGPT as a triage layer for cancer patients
This is the first episode of a special series called The Agentic Patient, which is a series about how real patients are using AI to navigate their health. We go into details, how do patients make AI help them do better, not worse, and what should we all be mindful of along the way? Which tools do th
How Copenhagen Uses AI and Digital Care to Support an Aging Population
This episode explores how Denmark’s 2024 health reform is accelerating an already mature digital health ecosystem, with a special focus on Copenhagen’s municipality-led elderly and community care services. Speakers Anders Elken Sønderby and Rikke Saltoft Andersen from City of Copenhagen, explain how
AI and mental health: Are smartphones and AI reshaping our brains; and our society? Marc D. Ritter
In this episode of Faces of Digital Health, host Tjasa Zajc sits down with Marc D. Ritter, CEO of AWE Digital Wellness, to explore the science behind digital addiction and the growing impact of social media, smartphones, and AI on mental health—especially in children and teenagers. From dopamine-dri
Cybersecurity 2.0: Defending Healthcare in the Age of Generative AI
In this episode of Faces of Digital Health, host Tjasa Zajc sits down with Nasser Arif, a Cybersecurity Manager for two NHS Trusts in Northwest London. The conversation moves beyond the technical "bits and bytes" to explore the human element of security. Nasser explains his daily routine of balancin
EHDS and Pharma: Impact on R&D and Unresolved Challenges
1 view Mar 19, 2026 In-person video interviewsThe European Health Data Space (EHDS) isn't just a new regulation—it’s a "Magna Carta" for healthcare innovation. In this interview from the Smart Bridges Event, we sit down with industry expert Dennis Geisthardt, Head of digital.lab, to break down the i
Is Healthcare Ready for AI? Anne Snowden on the Global Digital Health Gap
Are we overhyping AI in healthcare before building the foundations? In this interview from the HIMSS Global Conference, Anne Snowden (Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS) breaks down the latest data on global digital health maturity. We discuss why "Person-Enabled Health" is lagging, how countr
Do We Need to Address the Unofficial/Shadow AI Use Among Clinicians?
How is AI actually changing the day-to-day life of a clinician? In this episode, we sit down at the Smart Bridges GmbH Digital Health Excellence Forum in Frankfurt with Dimitri Varsamis PhD, Senior Programme Manager, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Georgi Nalbantov, PhD, Chief AI O
Inside Denmark’s 2024 Health Reform and New Digital Health Denmark (Morten Elbæk Petersen)
Denmark has been a digital health frontrunner for over two decades. In this episode, recorded live in Barcelona, Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO of sundhed.dk, shares how Denmark launched its national patient portal in 2002 — long before most European countries began digitizing patient access. Now, as De
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Are Engaged, AI Equipped Patients Becoming Essential For Good Outcomes? (Dale Atkinson)
In this episode of Faces of Digital Health, Tjaša Zajc speaks with Dale Atkinson, a stage 4 oesophageal cancer patient who was told he had 11.5 months to live—and who is still alive today. Dale shares how he applied his compliance and investigation skills to healthcare: reading thousands of research