Rapid Response: On the frontlines of scale: Hospitals, w/Dr. David Skorton, AAMC

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hospitals are facing overwhelming challenges they weren’t equipped for – and in many cases, they’re now innovating their way toward solutions. Today we're talking with Dr. David Skorton, CEO of the AAMC, the Association of American Medical Colleges. David isn’t a founder or an entrepreneur but he has a bird’s eye view of what health institutions are grappling with, how they need to rethink the way they operate, and what all of us — in any kind of organization — can learn from this moment.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you may have heard read talking about the future of AI and chat GPT on
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0:10.6	a Nice Future.
0:12.0	Each episode explores the future of AI through illuminated conversations, featuring top technologists,
0:17.7	thinkers, and creators who share stories of how politics, culture, commerce, and more
0:22.3	are all touched by technology.
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0:31.3	I've seen nothing but heroism from the sea suite of the hospital to the people in the
0:37.2	ER and the intensive care unit.
0:40.7	It would be a great, great wasted opportunity if we didn't look back on many, many things
0:46.6	from the middle of this pandemic.
0:50.5	For sure we could have been better repaired as a country and as a sector.
0:56.4	There are some things that have been unsolved problems not for years but for decades for
1:02.0	generations that I hope we now take more seriously.
1:07.2	Keep gathering data and like one would do in a research lab, comparing one's idea about
1:11.9	what might be done, call it a hypothesis.
1:14.8	To the data coming in, if the data on hypothesis don't match up, you don't throw away the data,
1:20.0	you throw away the hypothesis.
1:26.4	That's Dr. David Scorton, CEO of the AAMC, the Association of American Medical Colleges
1:32.3	and a cardiologist by training.
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