Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH Speaking Topics

• The AI-Powered Future of Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care & Clinical Excellence

  Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare, unlocking capabilities that enhance patient care, streamline operations, and accelerate innovation. In this forward-looking keynote, Dr. Barry Chaiken explores how AI is fundamentally reimagining healthcare delivery—creating a more precise, personalized, and proactive system.

  Drawing from extensive experience in healthcare informatics and his book “Future Healthcare 2050,” Dr. Barry Chaiken offers practical frameworks for effective AI adoption while preserving the human elements essential to quality care.

  Audience Takeaways:

  • Enhanced clinical decision-making through AI tools
  • The precision medicine revolution integrating multimodal data for tailored treatments
  • Implementation strategies avoiding common pitfalls
  • Workforce transformation, how AI augments staff
  • Forward-looking perspective on innovations, risks, and regulatory considerations

  Dr. Chaiken provides a practical roadmap for healthcare leaders to leverage AI effectively, enhancing patient care, driving efficiency, and confidently navigating the evolving healthcare landscape.

• Empowered Patients: Navigating Your Healthcare Journey

  In today’s complex healthcare environment, even the most capable individuals can feel overwhelmed and powerless when facing illness or managing chronic conditions.

  In this engaging and deeply personal keynote, Dr. Barry Chaiken draws on his unique experiences as a physician and two-time cancer survivor to guide audiences through the essential strategies for navigating the modern healthcare system. With real-world insights and practical advice, he demonstrates how patients can shift from being passive recipients of care to active participants in their health journey—leading to better outcomes, greater peace of mind, and improved quality of life.

  Audience Takeaways:

  • How do you prepare for medical visits, ask the right questions, and document important details?
  • Techniques to overcome fear and uncertainty when making healthcare decisions.
  • A framework for balancing quality, access, and cost when choosing treatment options.
  • Ways to engage family, caregivers, and digital tools to support your healthcare journey.
  • Practical steps to become a more informed and proactive healthcare consumer.

  With warmth, authenticity, and a touch of humor, Dr. Chaiken blends personal experience with professional expertise to inspire audiences to approach healthcare confidently, knowledge, and purposefully. Because when it comes to your health, you are your best advocate.

From Shortages to Solutions: Smart Policy, Resilient Healthcare

Despite remarkable medical breakthroughs, we are grappling with deep-rooted challenges that directly impact patient access, affordability, and safety. Essential medications are in perilous scarcity, healthcare costs are spiraling out of control, and a mounting workforce crisis is leaving patients in the lurch.

With a wealth of experience Dr. Barry Chaiken presents an inspiring vision of a future where these systemic challenges are met head-on through smart policy, strategic investment, and the transformative power of technological innovation.

Audience Takeaways:

• How treating medications as national security assets can end persistent shortages.
• Practical approaches to address clinician shortages and burnout.
• A roadmap for moving beyond failed cost-control measures to create systems that deliver genuine value.
• How AI, automation, and analytics can support clinicians, prevent shortages, and enhance patient care.

Dr. Chaiken’s engaging and solutions-focused presentation provides a practical roadmap for healthcare leaders to address medication and workforce shortages, optimize healthcare spending, and leverage technology to build a more resilient, patient-centered healthcare system.

Cost or Quality: Why Our Thinking About Healthcare Spending is All Wrong

Health maintenance organizations, capitated plans, restricted networks, accountable care organizations, all were created to manage the cost of care. But is cost the right place to focus? These strategies were unsuccessful in controlling costs as the U.S. surpassed $4 trillion in healthcare spending. Our focus should be on the very same thing that all our other purchases are based – value. Artificial-intelligence-designed workflow, digital workers, and analytics-influenced processes are just some of the ways revolutionary information technology can bridge the value-cost gap.

Rather than focus on what we spend on healthcare, we must aim to deliver value and then make choices about how we invest our resources.

Health 2035: Medical AI, Precision Medicine, Printed Organs, Virtual Reality

The U.S. offers the best healthcare services in the world. Or does it? Is a patient in rural Iowa able to access the same level of care as someone in Boston? The recent expanded use of telemedicine helped reduce the regional gap in care, but more evolution is necessary. Our embrace of precision medicine is just beginning, and new information technology tools are helping to make it a reality. Replacement organs will first be harvested from animals, followed by their assembly cell by cell. Combination medications with dosing specific to the individual are printed daily in the home. The patient experience will be seamless and comprehensive.

The expansion of healthcare information technology will drive these trends and help us secure the best care for ourselves and family.

Don’t We All Deserve the Best Patient Experience?

Quality, safety, access, and affordability of care. Sure they are top of mind for all patients, but is that all we should care about? Aren’t we consuming healthcare services and therefore that makes us consumers? Perhaps our patient experience should mimic our consumer experience where care is patient/consumer-centered. And that includes how we interact with our providers, payers, and caregivers.

The technology we use in our daily lives can be applied to enhance our patient experience and help ensure we obtain the best possible health outcomes.