On just Day 4 of his new role as Chief Clinical Product Officer at Nabla, Matt Sakumoto, MD, sat down with me for this live recording at the Nabla Summit in late January.
Matt, who was still practicing as a virtual primary care physician, hadn’t even finished onboarding, but he was already dropping takes on the future of agentic AI, physician independence, and why your health system’s AI readiness problem is actually a people problem.
Listen to hear why:
- Ambient scribes may be table stacks, but the next frontier is agentic AI that executes clinical workflows, not just documents them.
- AI may enable something healthcare hasn’t seen in decades: the return of independent primary care practices, powered by automated back offices and AI-driven operations.
- The success of AI adoption is about leadership buy-in, training infrastructure, governance, communication cadence, and an organization’s appetite for speed of change.
- Healthcare consumerism may create a new industry entirely: an “H&R Block for health insurance” to help people navigate coverage decisions.
- True value-based care still hinges on one unsolved challenge: how do you measure prevention when success is something that never happens?
- Building tools with nurses, front desks, and back offices in mind is just as important as helping doctors.
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