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Dr. George Cybulski, Clinical AI Leader at Humboldt Park Health · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  Philips.
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  This is Grace Lim Keller with the Becker's
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  Healthcare Podcast, and we are live at the
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  9th annual health IT, digital health, and RCM
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  conference.
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  I'm joined right now by doctor George Cibulski,
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  who is a clinical AI leader at Humboldt
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  Park Health. So, doctor Przybylski, thanks so much
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  for joining me today. We'd love to have
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  you start off by introducing yourself a little
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  bit further and telling us about all the
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  things that you are into. Well, thank you
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  so much for having me. So I am
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  a neurosurgeon
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  by, training and experience,
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  but I have,
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  recently over the past,
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  2 years been more interested in seeing how,
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  artificial intelligence
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  can increase value in my care of patients.
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  So I've,
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  done some courses on it and have I'm
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  working on,
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  constructing a
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  use case
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  for evaluating,
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  lower back pain in the emergency department.
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  Awesome. Well, you're the perfect candidate for our
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  conversation today, and we're gonna start with AI
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  adoption that's exploding right now in health care.
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  So I'd love to hear in your view
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  what is the most significant or promising application
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  of this technology, and how is this informing
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  your innovation strategy?
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  Well, thanks. Yeah. AI
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  has the ability to interact with every
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  part of our delivery process in health care.
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  So
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  working backward
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  from what I would be doing, which is
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  evaluating a patient,
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  we could prescreen
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  the patient that I am evaluating
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  to make sure that we get the most
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  value out of my actual physical face to
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  face evaluation of that patient.
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  Working backward from that, when when the patient
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  is scheduled to see me,
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  AI could help by asking those same kind
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  of questions to make sure
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  this patient has an appropriate referral to see
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  a specialist for their back pain. For example,
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  if a person is had newly developed back
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  pain over a few days,
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  they probably don't need to see a neurosurgeon
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  right off the bat.
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  If they've likewise, if they've had back pain
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  for
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  a few years,
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  we would like to know before seeing them
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  have what kind of treatment they've had. Have
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  they have they had diagnostic
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  tests? What those have showed?
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  And I see AI as a way to
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  gather that information by asking the most relevant
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  questions for that patient
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  and then
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  really putting that that those answers into an
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  algorithm,
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  which gets that patient to see
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  a specialist or to do some,
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  conservative management like physical therapy beforehand.
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  And switching gears just slightly to the data
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  side of things. Healthcare leaders are managing greater
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  volumes of data and more devices across a
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  growing number of care settings.
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  And this has become a very complex environment.
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  So what clinical data integration tools or practices
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  are you seeing drive improvements
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  in patient outcomes?
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  Well, the
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  ability
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  to have a AI
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  enhancement of the electronic medical record, I think,
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  is is really the essential or critical way
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  to help keep track of all of those
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  components
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  of health care. For example, if I see
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  a patient
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  and
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  I think the patient would need an operation
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  on their spine,
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  hopefully, with AI, we would be able to
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  know that that patient would be preauthorized
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  to have that procedure,
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  and we could get that procedure then scheduled
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  in the most expeditious fashion.
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  And with the technological
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  innovation,
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  AI adoption,
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  greater volumes of data, we see the burden
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  on our IT teams
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  become much greater.
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  So I'd love to hear how you think
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  health care organizations can better support our IT
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  teams and also our clinical teams as we're
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  carrying out these innovation efforts.
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  Well, a conference just like now at Becker's,
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  I've been interacting with various
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  organizations
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  that really apply some out of the box
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  solutions
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  for pre authorization,
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  for revenue
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  cycle,
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  and for actual clinical diagnosis. So I think
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  the beauty of of
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  a program
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  such as, we're attending today is that it
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  shows a clinician like me
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  things that I can share with, the people
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  I work with in information technology back at
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  Humboldt Park Health
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  to make their work easier.
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  And then as we wrap up our conversation
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  today, I would love to know your top
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  piece of advice for health care leaders as
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  they prepare for further advancements in technology and
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  greater demands for care.
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  Well, it's a it's gonna be a challenge
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  because we're going to have
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  to continue
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  to learn and be open to learning,
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  and we have to learn
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  how various solutions that will be proposed
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  by organizations that I've talked with today,
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  how much their value will really contribute to
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  our organizations.
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  And, it's the same as, with instituting any
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  other type of program in a hospital
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  with supplies and things like that? Are we
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  getting the the best value for the investment?
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  And I understand you're an author. You've written
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  a book as well. So do you wanna
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  share a little bit about that piece of
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  work? Well, thanks, Grace. Yes. I'm very,
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  happy to say that this year, my book
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  called can we manage
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  to save health care was released on Amazon
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  and became a number one bestseller. The premise
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  of the book is is to look at
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  all of the challenges,
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  socioeconomic,
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  delivery,
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  electronic medical record to look at these challenges
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  to
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  to be frank about how we need to
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  overcome some of the challenges they present to
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  our giving value to patient care.
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  Well, thank you so much for joining me
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  today on the Becker's health care podcast.
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  Again, we're live at the 9th annual Health
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  IT Digital Health and RCM conference.
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  Thank you. Thank you. It's been my pleasure.