In Conversation: David Lubarsky, MD

In a sector where hype routinely outruns delivery, it is worth listening closely to David Lubarsky, MD, President & CEO, Westchester Medical Center Health Network. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted by Becker's Hospital Review, David laid out a view of the industry that is both candid and immediately useful to the executives, clinicians, and builders who read HealthTech Cube.

The conversation

Why AI will ease the radiologist shortage by handling routine reads cheaply and accurately - as an augmentation of physicians, not a replacement.

“AI can read that correctly 99.97% of the time.”
- David Lubarsky, MD, in conversation with Becker's Hospital Review

Conversation highlights

The bigger picture

The AI adoption question runs through every executive conversation in 2026. The evidence base is finally arriving: the largest controlled study of ambient documentation, published in JAMA, found clinicians saved 16 minutes of documentation time per day - but only a third of users hit the usage threshold for maximum benefit (our coverage). Meanwhile Rock Health has stopped labeling AI as a differentiator at all, because every company claims it - which is exactly why operating discipline of the kind described here separates winners from demo-ware.

What makes the discussion valuable is its refusal to stay abstract: every point lands on a real workflow, budget, or patient. At Westchester Medical Center Health Network, that thinking translates into daily decisions about where technology genuinely earns its place in care delivery, and where discipline matters more than novelty.

The HTC take

The through-line matches what our reporting keeps finding across the industry: adoption succeeds where governance, workflow, and evidence move together.