James Weinstein
SVP Microsoft Health - Innovation and Health Equity
News & features
In the news | AAMC
Can AI fundamentally improve patient care?
Microsoft exec and Learn Serve Lead 2024 speaker James Weinstein, DO, says the technology could eventually expand access and quality, but privacy concerns remain. While artificial intelligence (AI) tools are drawing attention for their potential to improve doctor-patient dynamics —…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works
Consider how Napster, the networked file sharing system, upended the music industry. The emergence of generative AI language models like ChatGPT, has much in common with this Napster-initiated inflection point: a breakthrough technology with breathtakingly fast adoption, appropriation of other…
In the news | Digital Health
5 takeaways from the Future of Rural Health Care Summit
Digital health experts from the public and private sectors gathered Tuesday at Sanford Health’s Summit on the Future of Rural Health Care. The event, hosted by the Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system, featured a lineup of speakers from big…
In the news | Fierce Healthcare
Rural America is fertile ground for healthcare innovation, experimentation, tech leaders say
Rural health systems and hospitals are poised to be the next hubs of tech innovation, leveraging digital health and virtual care to serve patients across thousands of square miles and over state lines.
In the news | Talking Beats
The American Health Apparatus and Public Health Transparency with Microsoft’s Dr. Jim Weinstein
"As I scientist I ask-- where's the data on COVID vaccines? How many women, how many men, how many shots? Which arm? Did it cause their diabetes to get better? Did it affect their time off of work? What kind…
In the news | Sound Cloud
How closely related are healthcare costs and quality in the U.S.?
In the world of consumerism, we often think that cost and quality are related: You get what you pay for. However, that’s not necessarily the case, as Jim Weinstein, MD, discovered during the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which he founded –-…
In the news | Microsoft Health Blog
Digital transformation can improve clinical and financial outcomes
The healthcare industry is in critical need of digital transformation as providers struggle with administrative burdens, fragmented care delivery, siloed data, and burnout. To effectively tackle these challenges, providers in value-based contracts need to quickly adapt to the digital transformation…
In the news | MedPage Today
An Expert’s Perspective on ‘Precision Population Health’
It is a well-established fact that multiple factors (e.g., family history/genetics, clinical care, socioeconomics, lifestyle) contribute to the prevalence and outcomes of cardiovascular disease. Today, accruing evidence suggests that a strong relationship also exists between economic indicators (e.g., wealth, prosperity,…
In the news | McKinsey and Company
‘Test and listen’: Microsoft’s Jim Weinstein on healthcare tech
In this podcast excerpt, Microsoft Healthcare’s head of innovation shares his thoughts on what technology can and can’t do in the healthcare space.