Clinicians + AI = Building Better Tools For Patient Care
Release Date: 10/22/2025
Medicolegal Considerations with AI and Medicine
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky cover a highly requested topic: the medicolegal issues of AI in medicine. Are clinically-related searches in an LLM like Open Evidence admissible? Who is liable if there is a bad outcome when a clinician uses an AI tool in their decision-making? What really happens to all of the data and transcripts that is generated by an AI-scribbling tool? These questions (and many more!) are answered by our resident legal expert, Pete Heidepriem. Note: Pete's...
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Bias and Fairness
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky address a common concern of clinicians when it comes to AI and medicine: bias and fairness. How might AI perpetuate health disparities that are rooted in bias? Or could AI help to mitigate bias in medicine? To learn more about this issue, Vicky interviews data journalist, author, and NYU professor on the topic of bias in technology. They explore how and why bias exists in technology and what can be done about it. Visit to leave a voice...
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Clinicians + AI = Building Better Tools For Patient Care
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky talk with Caroline (Carrie) Hodge, a PA and the co-founder and CEO of . Dimer Health leverages clinical expertise and an AI-powered platform to facilitate a seamless transition for patients from hospital to home. We discuss how clinician-entrepreneurs are leveraging technology to address age-old problems in medicine. For more information on the organizations highlighted in this episode: 1. 2. 3. 4. ...
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When The Machine Gets It Wrong: Hallucinations
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky tackle a common pitfall of AI: hallucinations. What are hallucinations (and is that even the right term)? Why do these types of errors happen? And what can individuals do to reduce the hallucination rate? Plus, Rob and Vicky dive into OpenAI’s most recent model release, ChatGPT 5, and analyze its performance against older GPT models. For those who want to dive deeper into OpenAI’s HealthBench benchmark: OpenAI’s white paper on...
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Educating with AI
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Vicky brings together the voices and experiences of educators from various health professions to explore how AI is reshaping the way we train healthcare professionals. How is AI showing up in the classroom and study halls? Where is it helping students and educators, and what are the potential harms? And how are leaders in health professions education thinking about the future of medical education and AI? References: 1. 2. Visit to leave a...
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AI In The Clinic: Hype or Help?
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky are joined by Primary Care PA and self-proclaimed early AI adopter Ashley Greer as they dive into the different scribing and administrative AI tools used in clinical practice today. Visit to leave a voice message about anything related to AI and medicine: your excitement, your concerns, your own experiences with AI… anything. Your voice might even make it onto a future episode.
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What Is AI (And Why Should Clinicians Care?)
Practicing with AI
Welcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, join hosts Vicky Pittman, VP of Education and practicing PA, and Rob Taves, VP of Tech and tech expert, as they define AI, dive into how AI tech works, and provide practical tips for selecting and using AI tools. Here are some prompt engineering guidelines we recommend using: Use clear roles: You might say something like: “You are a medical educator… ” for medical prompts. On the other hand If you’re looking for recipe advice, maybe...
info_outlineWelcome to Hippo Education’s Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky talk with Caroline (Carrie) Hodge, a PA and the co-founder and CEO of Dimer Health. Dimer Health leverages clinical expertise and an AI-powered platform to facilitate a seamless transition for patients from hospital to home. We discuss how clinician-entrepreneurs are leveraging technology to address age-old problems in medicine.
For more information on the organizations highlighted in this episode:
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/ai-drug-repurposing.html
2. https://thehealthcaretechnologyreport.com/how-one-key-encounter-helped-shiv-rao-create-abridge/
3. https://www.viz.ai/our-story
Visit speakpipe.com/hippoed to leave a voice message about anything related to AI and medicine: your excitement, your concerns, your own experiences with AI… anything. Your voice might even make it onto a future episode.