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TDP 188: UW Health鈥檚 Dr. Joel Gordon and Stacy Rasmussen: Building a Successful Digital Transformation Dyad, Leading and Lagging Indicators of Success with AI, and Measuring ROI with Rigor for AI Scribes

August 21, 2025
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On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of 国产传媒, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Joel Gordon (CMIO, UW Health) and Stacy Rasmussen (VP, IS Business Relationship Management, Planning and Growth, UW Health), about "Building a Successful Digital Transformation Dyad, Leading and Lagging Indicators of Success with AI, Measuring ROI with Rigor for AI Scribes, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

Audio:

Guest(s):

  • Dr. Joel Gordon, Chief Medical Information Officer at UW聽Health
  • Stacy Rasmussen, VP, IS Business Relationship Management, Planning and Growth at UW聽Health
  • Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at 国产传媒

Episode 188 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:00:51] Why Dr. Gordon chose healthcare after spending a summer studying ecology

[00:01:18] How Ms. Rasmussen 鈥榝ound her home鈥 in health IT via CPOE

[00:02:13] 鈥淭o Err Is Human鈥 as Dr. Gordon's inflection point into informatics

[00:05:06] What excites Ms. Rasmussen about digital: fix waste, elevate experience

[00:05:57] How their dyad partnership works in practice

[00:11:02] Building trust: good intent, 鈥渃rucial conversations鈥, making it fun, and declaring it special

[00:13:21] 鈥淩emove emotion, focus on fact vs. fiction鈥濃攇et one story

[00:24:03] Adoption philosophy: quality over speed for ambient tools

[00:25:45] Simple training, utilization scorecards, and repurposing licenses

[00:27:44] Strategy & policy before people鈥損rocess鈥搕ech

[00:27:49] Diffusion of innovation: set habits in first 3鈥6 months

[00:36:47] LLMs can 鈥渓ook right but lose context鈥濃攂uyer beware

[00:41:30] Measuring ROI with rigor

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

  1. What is your favorite book or book you鈥檝e gifted the most?
    Stacy: "Too Blessed to Be Stressed" by Debora Coty and Lisa Larsen
    Joel: "Mastering the Matrix" by Susan Z. Finerty
  2. If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be?
    Stacy: Debate team member.
    Joel: Guitar.
  3. Would you rather have Super strength, super speed, or the ability to read people鈥檚 minds?
    Stacy: Mind reading.
    Joel: Speed.
  4. What is something in healthcare you believe that others might find insane?
    Stacy: The amount of regulations and the payment process.
    Joel: The piles and piles of data that is not converted to information/knowledge鈥
  5. What is the last movie or TV show you saw?
    Stacy: Landman
    Joel: Love on the Spectrum

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TDP 188: UW Health鈥檚 Dr. Joel Gordon and Stacy Rasmussen: Building a Successful Digital Transformation Dyad, Leading and Lagging Indicators of Success with AI, and Measuring ROI with Rigor for AI Scribes

Posted by:
seamless
on
August 21, 2025

Subscribe on: | | | | |

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of 国产传媒, and colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Joel Gordon (CMIO, UW Health) and Stacy Rasmussen (VP, IS Business Relationship Management, Planning and Growth, UW Health), about "Building a Successful Digital Transformation Dyad, Leading and Lagging Indicators of Success with AI, Measuring ROI with Rigor for AI Scribes, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

Audio:

Guest(s):

  • Dr. Joel Gordon, Chief Medical Information Officer at UW聽Health
  • Stacy Rasmussen, VP, IS Business Relationship Management, Planning and Growth at UW聽Health
  • Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO at 国产传媒

Episode 188 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:00:51] Why Dr. Gordon chose healthcare after spending a summer studying ecology

[00:01:18] How Ms. Rasmussen 鈥榝ound her home鈥 in health IT via CPOE

[00:02:13] 鈥淭o Err Is Human鈥 as Dr. Gordon's inflection point into informatics

[00:05:06] What excites Ms. Rasmussen about digital: fix waste, elevate experience

[00:05:57] How their dyad partnership works in practice

[00:11:02] Building trust: good intent, 鈥渃rucial conversations鈥, making it fun, and declaring it special

[00:13:21] 鈥淩emove emotion, focus on fact vs. fiction鈥濃攇et one story

[00:24:03] Adoption philosophy: quality over speed for ambient tools

[00:25:45] Simple training, utilization scorecards, and repurposing licenses

[00:27:44] Strategy & policy before people鈥損rocess鈥搕ech

[00:27:49] Diffusion of innovation: set habits in first 3鈥6 months

[00:36:47] LLMs can 鈥渓ook right but lose context鈥濃攂uyer beware

[00:41:30] Measuring ROI with rigor

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

  1. What is your favorite book or book you鈥檝e gifted the most?
    Stacy: "Too Blessed to Be Stressed" by Debora Coty and Lisa Larsen
    Joel: "Mastering the Matrix" by Susan Z. Finerty
  2. If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be?
    Stacy: Debate team member.
    Joel: Guitar.
  3. Would you rather have Super strength, super speed, or the ability to read people鈥檚 minds?
    Stacy: Mind reading.
    Joel: Speed.
  4. What is something in healthcare you believe that others might find insane?
    Stacy: The amount of regulations and the payment process.
    Joel: The piles and piles of data that is not converted to information/knowledge鈥
  5. What is the last movie or TV show you saw?
    Stacy: Landman
    Joel: Love on the Spectrum

The Digital Patient has been recognized as Feedspot's . Thank you to our listeners for making this happen!

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