Using AI to Amplify Care for Patients With Chronic Disease

Trishan Panch, MD, MPH, is co-founder and chief medical officer for digital health management provider Wellframe (www.wellframe.com). He is an MIT lecturer for Health Sciences and Technology and teaches Masters and PhD students at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and MIT. Dr Panch is also on the advisory board of Boston Children's Hospital. He has set up and run primary care organizations in the US, UK, India, and Sri Lanka, providing comprehensive adult, pediatric, obstetric, and mental health care for complex populations in a mixture of urban and rural settings. I vividly remember the scene in the back office of my practice: clinical notes to the left of me, unsigned prescriptions to the right, and I was stuck in the middle looking at new quality metrics for our patient population.