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Healthcare innovation is broken. We have billion-dollar AI running on 1990s infrastructure. We have startups dying in "Pilotitis." And we have leaders frozen by analysis paralysis. Dr. Sarah Matt (The Clinical Realist) is here to fix the disconnect between the tech stack and the trauma bay. Join Dr. Matt—physician, strategist, and author of The Borderless Healthcare Revolution —as she cuts through the hype to reveal what actually works in modern medicine. No buzzwords. No fluff. Just the raw, unvarnished truth about how to lead, build, and survive in the future of healthcare. If you are tired of the "Star Trek" vision and want the "Clinical Reality," this is your show. Subscribe to The Sarah Matt Briefing for weekly insights on healthcare AI, access strategy, and the business of medicine: https://drsarahmatt.com/newsletter-signup
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The Clinical Realist is hosted by Dr. Sarah Matt. The show has published 31 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Trust Slide Is Aimed at the Wrong Target, with Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul" (29 October 2026, 28 minutes), "What a Medical Bill Actually Is, with Amy Stillman" (7 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "What Longitudinal Data Actually Contains, with Shashi Shankar" (30 September 2026, 33 minutes).
The Clinical Realist publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 31 episodes.
Booking probability for The Clinical Realist is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Clinical Realist requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Clinical Realist's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dr. Sarah Matt hosts The Clinical Realist, a health podcast with 31 episodes published.
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Episode #35
Every AI vendor deck has a slide about building trust in the algorithm. Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul thinks it's aimed at the wrong target. The thing eroding isn't trust in the machine. It's the relationship between the people...
Episode #33
The encounter ends, the patient goes home, and then a bill arrives. Amy Stillman argues that a medical bill is not a payment reminder. Patients frequently do not understand what happened to them, what they owe, or what...
Episode #32
Start with a number. In a registry of about 6,000 patients on GLP-1 medications, roughly 45 percent have taken two or more versions of the drug, most often moving from semaglutide to tirzepatide. The largest published...
Episode #31
Anthony Guerra has asked roughly the same question about 600 times. He founded Health System CIO in 2010 and has covered health information technology since 2005, which is 16 years sitting across from the people who...
Episode #30
You cannot will your way to better healthcare outcomes. Agency, it turns out, is not a mindset problem: it is a neurological one, a design one, and a systems one. Kris Nessa has spent her career on both sides of the...
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Somewhere in your organization there is an AI tool in year two of its contract, performing worse than the day you signed. The model did not change. Your patients did. Arvita Tripati calls what accumulates in that gap...
The Clinical Realist
Ask a health system CEO about their women's health strategy and you will hear two things. Labor and delivery. Mammography. Then they wipe their hands, and the checkbox is checked. Priya Bathija spent nine years at the...
The Clinical Realist
Most clinical trial eligibility criteria are written by people who have never run a site. Lisa Sonneborn has run one for 15 years. She built the first stand-alone clinical trial facility in Upstate New York, focused on...
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People whose care is scattered across multiple providers, with no single person or system holding the whole picture, have more than double the risk of dying, even after accounting for how sick they already are. Amy...
The Clinical Realist
Most healthtech founders solve a real clinical problem, get piloted in a few systems, and then discover that solving the clinical problem was never the same thing as building a company someone would actually buy. Dr...
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Two years ago, every health system was running an AI pilot. Today, most are still running AI pilots. The technology improved dramatically. The deployment gap between what a board approves and what happens in an exam...
Episode #23
Patient experience gets treated as a soft metric. Amanda Brummitt, FACHE, has spent 25+ years in health system operations proving it is a margin lever, a retention lever, and the first thing most AI rollouts...
Episode #22
Dr. Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and CEO of Michigan Medicine, sits across the table from health tech founders every day. In this episode, he shares the institutional...
Episode #21
The pilot succeeded. The value analysis committee approved it. The implementation team did their job. And then the physician quietly stopped using it. That's the physician's veto: the force that kills more health tech...
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The AI tool you bought last quarter, the one bundled into your EHR upgrade, the one your hospital piloted on your unit. Was it cleared by the FDA as a medical device? Most physicians do not know the answer. The vendor's...
The Clinical Realist
Medical school teaches you pathophysiology, pharmacology, and clinical reasoning. It does not teach you how the money actually works. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Matt breaks down the economic structures that govern every...
The Clinical Realist
<p>Recorded live at Cornell Ithaca. This is the extended cut of Dr. Sarah Matt's keynote on the central design flaw in modern healthcare: a system optimized for an "average" patient who does not...
Episode #17
Most clinical AI governance frameworks tell you how to evaluate tools before you deploy them. Nobody talks about how to exit a tool that is not working. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Matt walks through the anatomy of sunk...
Episode #16
Most health systems that deployed clinical AI in Q1 are now six to eight weeks post-launch and starting to see the governance gap. Dr. Sarah Matt explains what the gap looks like in production, why retrofitting...
Episode #15
Your pilot worked. You got approval to scale. Six weeks into full implementation, something is wrong: not catastrophically wrong, just wrong enough to make you wonder whether "it worked in the pilot" meant anything at...
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Health Technology Strategist, Growth Catalyst, Author, Borderless Healthcare Revolution
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MD, Stanford University Professor, Forbes Contributor, Bestselling Author, Former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Business
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