The Data Frontier Podcast
Episodes
From Nurse Protocols to Knowledge Graphs: Building Clinically Rigorous AI
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
70% of patients think they know where to go for care. They're wrong. That's one of the surprising findings from Clearstep, which built its AI ...
What Physicians Actually Want From AI
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most healthcare AI tools get built and then don't get used. Why? Because they weren't built around how clinicians actually work.In this episod...
Season 1, Episode 8 | Building AI Inside a Cancer Center and the Data Challenges No One Talks About
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it actually take to build AI systems inside a major cancer center? In this episode, Dr. Anyi Li, Attending Physicist and Chief of Computer S...
Season 1, Episode 7 | What Happens When Patients Tell Their Own Story
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if patients could complete their medical history before ever walking into the exam room, and actually enjoy doing it?Dr. Chris O'Connor is th...
Season 1, Episode 6 | Rebuilding Every Pipeline: AI After an Epic Migration
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Unity Health Toronto migrated to Epic, Dr. Derek Beaton's team faced a familiar challenge: the same measures now had different names, technical f...
Season 1, Episode 5 | Small Models, Real-World Impact: Context-Specific AI in Global Healthcare
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can AI improve healthcare in resource-limited settings without massive budgets or billion-parameter models?Patricia Thaine sits down with Chenjerai Si...
Season 1, Episode 4 | Who Owns Your Health Data?
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who Owns Your Health Data?The answer depends on where you live, and it's rarely the patient.Jim St. Clair and Eric Sutherland join Patricia to unpack ...
Season 1, Episode 3 | Connecting the Healthcare Data Ecosystem: Privacy, Platforms, and Patient Trust
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Girgis (Digital Health Program Manager, Terry Fox Research Institute) and Vinod Subramanian (Chief Operating & AI Officer, MedAdvisor Solut...
Season 1, Episode 2 | From eHealth to AI Health: Reimagining Primary Care with AI
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could rebuild primary care from scratch – knowing what we know now about AI, robotics, and the lessons from eHealth Ontario?Patricia Thai...
Season 1, Episode 1 | From HL7 to MCP: The Infrastructure Stack for Healthcare AI
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare moves at the speed of trust – and right now, trust is the bottleneck.Patricia Thaine sits down with Michael Lynch (Product Manager, Provi...