The Business of Health with Chip Kahn
About this Episode
Episode 20, AI Series: Walk into the emergency room at Israel’s largest hospital and the first clinician to take your history may be an AI avatar — with a physician signing off on every recommendation. Israel’s Sheba Medical Center is building what could become the first fully AI-based hospital by 2030. Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba’s Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief AI officer, talks with Chip about what that means for patients. During their conversation, Dr. Zimlichman argues that in the future, doctors will “be much more humane than the doctors of the present…because if we’re not able to achieve that, then there’s really no difference between the AI and the physician…we will be able to compete with the AI in terms of humanity.”
The Host
Charles N. Kahn III is a senior visiting fellow at KFF. He is also a visiting senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a nonresident senior scholar at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. He serves as co-chair of the international Future of Health collaborative.
Guest
Eyal Zimlichman, MD
Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and Chief AI Officer, Sheba Medical Center; Founder, ARC Innovation
Eyal Zimlichman, MD, is a physician, healthcare executive, and researcher specializing in healthcare quality, value, and patient safety. In the separate roles of Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and Chief AI Officer at Sheba Medical Center at Sheba Medical Center—Israel’s largest hospital—he drives efforts to make care more patient-centered, efficient, and equitable, and founded ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate), Sheba’s global platform for advancing digital health and AI through collaboration with healthcare institutions, industry, and startups. His leadership has earned international recognition, including being named a Chief Transformation Officer to Know by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2023 and 2024. He previously served as Sheba’s Chief Medical Officer and, before that, its Chief Quality Officer. Dr. Zimlichman holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and earned his MD from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
SERIES
This weekly podcast features insightful conversations between host Chip Kahn and his guests, who discuss the business of health care, connecting the dots between the health care business, policy, and patients.
The podcast’s first series on AI in health care illuminates how AI is changing health care, and features guests who are deploying this technology, managing its consequences, and designing policy around it.