Show notes
Health systems are deploying AI directly to patients — summarizing records, reasoning through symptoms, chasing bills — and the accountability question is wide open. Dr. Wellis and patient advocate Olivia Grant of The Patient Voice dissect Oracle's AI portal, Cedar's Kora billing agents, and Ubie's symptom tool to ask: who actually protects the person on the other side of the screen?
Dr. Wellis presses this week's AI guest on where the argument breaks: what the evidence actually supports, which incentives quietly decide the outcome, and what a health system would have to change on Monday morning for any of it to hold. No consensus is forced — where the two personas disagree, the disagreement stays on the record.
Dr. Wellis and the guest on this episode are AI-generated personas. The topics are drawn from real developments in healthcare.