Scaling Healthcare AI Beyond the Pilot with Dr. Sarah Matt
Friday, September 11, 2026
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The speaker reports that clear AI governance is vitally important in healthcare systems to serve as a Rosetta stone for aligning different stakeholders—clinical, technical, leadership—on how to bring technology into the organization and manage change.
“SPEAKER_00 32:52 I think that we forget that we all speak different languages and have different expertise. And no one leg of that stool is more important than the other because we can't work without them. And so, you know, we've got big personalities on all sides speaking different languages, and we have to have that Rosetta stone of how we're gonna bring technology into our organization, how we're gonna do the change management. And I think that's why having really clear AI governance, especially around clinical pieces, is so vitally important in a healthcare system”
The speaker reports that without a defined clinical champion role in contracts, staff may resort to shadow AI or workarounds like post-it notes, making utilization metrics misleading.
Send us Fan MailDr. Sarah Matt joins Chris Hutchins to examine pilotitis, the cycle of healthcare projects that struggle to move beyond testing. This episode of The Signal Room focuses on the practical challenges of scaling healthcare AI and bringing clinical voices into technology decisions. Sarah shares her path from medicine into health technology leadership and discusses the concept of borderless healthcare. Chris and Sarah consider how patient trust and digital literacy affect adoption, and why design needs to account for diverse patient populations. The conversation also covers the work around implementation, from clinical and operational buy-in to procurement and vendor relationships. They discuss change management and the future of healthcare governance as AI use expands. For healthcare leaders and digital health teams, this episode offers a closer look at the decisions surrounding a pilot and the people who need to be part of them.About the guestDr. Sarah Matt is a physician-executive and author of The Borderless Healthcare Revolution. Her background spans clinical medicine and enterprise health technology. Guest and book linksDr. Sarah Matt: https://drsarahmatt.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmattmd/The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: https://drsarahmatt.com/book Connect with the show The Signal Room: https://signalroompodcast.com/The AI Health Pulse: https://aihealthpulse.beehiiv.com/Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants: https://hutchinsdatastrategy.com/ Subscribe to The Signal Room for more conversations about AI in healthcare. What has kept a pilot from becoming part of everyday work in your organization? Share your experience in the comments. Support the showAbout The Signal Room: The Signal Room is a podcast and communications platform exploring leadership, ethics, and innovation in healthcare and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants. Leadership, ethics, and innov
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Send us Fan MailDr. Sarah Matt joins Chris Hutchins to examine pilotitis, the cycle of healthcare projects that struggle to move beyond testing. This episode of The Signal Room focuses on the practical challenges of scaling healthcare AI and bringing clinical voices into technology decisions. Sarah shares her path from medicine into health technology leadership and discusses the concept of borderless healthcare. Chris and Sarah consider how patient trust and digital literacy affect adoption, and why design needs to account for diverse patient populations. The conversation also covers the work around implementation, from clinical and operational buy-in to procurement and vendor relationships. They discuss change management and the future of healthcare governance as AI use expands. For healthcare leaders and digital health teams, this episode offers a closer look at the decisions surrounding a pilot and the people who need to be part of them.About the guestDr. Sarah Matt is a physician-executive and author of The Borderless Healthcare Revolution. Her background spans clinical medicine and enterprise health technology. Guest and book linksDr. Sarah Matt: https://drsarahmatt.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmattmd/The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: https://drsarahmatt.com/book Connect with the show The Signal Room: https://signalroompodcast.com/The AI Health Pulse: https://aihealthpulse.beehiiv.com/Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants: https://hutchinsdatastrategy.com/ Subscribe to The Signal Room for more conversations about AI in healthcare. What has kept a pilot from becoming part of everyday work in your organization? Share your experience in the comments. Support the showAbout The Signal Room: The Signal Room is a podcast and communications platform exploring leadership, ethics, and innovation in healthcare and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants. Leadership, ethics, and innovation, amplified.Website: https://www.hutchinsdatastrategy.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chutchins-healthcare/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHutchinsAiBook Chris to speak: https://www.chrisjhutchins.com
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