Zak Kohane's guest appearances

Zak Kohane

Tech Tonics

The AI Health Podcast

Daphne Koller

Andrew Ng

Eric Topol

George Church

Johns Hopkins

Michelle Meyer

Vivian Lee

Brian Smith

Stephanie Tilenius

Annie Lamont

Dave Albert

Joshua Gordon

Will Ahmed

Xiao Liu

Toby Cosgrove

OwlTail

Zak Kohane, M.D., Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He speaks with us about sharing medical data and using AI to gain actionable insights from it. Pranav and Adriel first give an overview on the rules and standards that shape medical data sharing today. The interview with Professor Kohane starts at 12:21. If you like what you hear, let a friend know, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and connect with us on Twitter @AIHealthPodcast.

Zak Kohane, M.D., Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He speaks with us about sharing medical data and using AI to gain actionable insights from it. Pranav and Adriel first give an overview on the rules and standards that shape medical data sharing today. The interview with Professor Kohane starts at 12:21. If you like what you hear, let a friend know, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and connect with us on Twitter @AIHealthPodcast.

Thou Shalt Share: Harvard’s Professor Zak Kohane on Making Our Data Work for Us

The son of Eastern European immigrants, Zak Kohane was born and raised in Switzerland; he then came to the United States where he’s nurtured a passion for medicine and computers to become one of the nation’s leading thinkers, innovators, and mentors at this important and rapidly evolving interface. Join us this week as we discuss Zak’s fascinating personal journey, but also learn his perspective on why EHRs are so bad (and what might be done to improve them), why data sharing seems to be so difficult (and how it could be made better), why he championed entrepreneurship at Harvard long before it was viewed as a (somewhat) acceptable pursuit, and why he recently founded the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard (where co-host David serves as an Adjunct Scholar). Zak also discusses the value of great mentors, such as Joe Majzoub and the late Judah Folkman, both of Children’s Hospital, and explore Folkman’s explanation of the difference between persistence and obstinance. Zak brings a unique blend of technological sophistication and impassioned humanism to everything he pursues; we are delighted he joins us this episode to share this insight and energy with our listeners! This episode of Tech Tonics is sponsored by DNAnexus, the secure and compliant cloud platform that enables enterprise users to analyze, collaborate around, and integrate massive amounts of genetic and other health data.

The son of Eastern European immigrants, Zak Kohane was born and raised in Switzerland; he then came to the United States where he’s nurtured a passion for medicine and computers to become one of the nation’s leading thinkers, innovators, and mentors at this important and rapidly evolving interface. Join us this week as we discuss Zak’s fascinating personal journey, but also learn his perspective on why EHRs are so bad (and what might be done to improve them), why data sharing seems to be so difficult (and how it could be made better), why he championed entrepreneurship at Harvard long before it was viewed as a (somewhat) acceptable pursuit, and why he recently founded the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard (where co-host David serves as an Adjunct Scholar). Zak also discusses the value of great mentors, such as Joe Majzoub and the late Judah Folkman, both of Children’s Hospital, and explore Folkman’s explanation of the difference between persistence and obstinance. Zak brings a unique blend of technological sophistication and impassioned humanism to everything he pursues; we are delighted he joins us this episode to share this insight and energy with our listeners! This episode of Tech Tonics is sponsored by <a href="http://dnanexus.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DNAnexus</a>, the secure and compliant cloud platform that enables enterprise users to analyze, collaborate around, and integrate massive amounts of genetic and other health data.

Tech Tonics: Zak Kohane On Medicine and Computers