Analytics and AI at Children's Hospital Colorado

Why we picked this episode

Every week the HTC editorial desk listens across the health tech podcast landscape and selects the conversations that actually move a listener's understanding forward. This episode of Becker's Digital Health + IT, featuring Kerri Webster, earned its place on that list.

What the conversation covers

How a pediatric health system's analytics team applies data science, predictive analytics, and AI to improve outcomes - and why data literacy comes before dashboards.

Key discussion threads

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.

The data-infrastructure backdrop makes this conversation timely: TEFCA crossed one billion exchanged health records this summer, up from 10 million in under a year (our coverage), while KLAS reports EHR purchasing fell 40% as capital shifts from record systems to the AI and analytics layered on top of them. Interoperability is no longer the constraint - deciding what to do with flowing data is.

The HTC take

Listen with a notebook handy: the most valuable material here is operational, not theoretical - the kind of detail that only surfaces when practitioners talk shop. Pair it with our related coverage below and you have a working brief on the topic.