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AI is already changing how healthcare professionals document care, create patient education materials, and conduct research. What will it take to turn that new capability into better care?

Recorded at AMIA’s Amplify conference, this episode of Cup of CHAI brings together three perspectives on healthcare AI in practice. Host James Mitchell speaks with researcher Dr. Max Topaz, clinical educator Dr. Samantha Stonebraker, and Army Nurse Corps informaticist Major Jerome Ferran about what these tools make possible, and the questions their deployment raises.

The conversation begins with a striking finding: an analysis of 2.5 million PubMed articles identified roughly 3,000 papers containing fabricated citations, with the rate increasing twelvefold over three years. From there, we explore a central tension: AI can help people build, investigate, and communicate faster, while also introducing errors that demand careful human review.

In this episode

• From pilots to practice: How AI is entering clinical workflows, including ambient documentation and administrative tasks.
• Clinicians as builders: Why new tools are making it easier for people with clinical expertise to turn ideas into working applications.
• Patient education: Dr. Stonebraker’s work using AI to develop HIV health education infographics—and the challenges of accuracy and visual clutter.
• Time for care: What reduced documentation burden could mean for clinicians and patients, and how to use the time saved.
• Skills and judgment: How to benefit from AI assistance while preserving the knowledge needed to evaluate its output.
• Accountability at scale: Why auditing, validation, and ongoing monitoring matter as adoption grows.

Guests

Dr. Max Topaz — Associate professor at Columbia University School of Nursing, studying AI development, implementation, and clinical practice.

Dr. Samantha Stonebraker — Associate professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

Major Jerome Ferran — Army Nurse Corps nurse and healthcare informaticist at Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning.

Hosted by James Mitchell Cup of CHAI • Center for Health AI • University of Colorado Anschutz

The opportunity is bigger than faster documentation. It is helping healthcare professionals do more for the people they serve, with the judgment, education, and oversight that good care requires.