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The Workup
A quarterly, invitation-only roundtable where health system leaders talk candidly about AI and technology, off the record and away from vendor pitches.
A medical workup is how you take a vague complaint and work it into a real diagnosis, step by step, ruling things out until you land on the truth. This roundtable applies that same discipline to AI in inpatient care, from the big strategic bets down to the granular details of how a tool actually performs.
Dr. David Kirk, MD, and Dr. Renee Allenbaugh, MD, host five to ten peers, matched by role, for a candid conversation each session. It runs thirty minutes under Chatham House Rule, with no vendor pitches and nothing recorded.
The topics change every time. One session might dig into where payers are placing their bets, or whether the big EHR vendors end up owning clinical AI. The next might tackle something more practical: how a deal actually survives governance, or why physicians adopt a new tool and don't just tolerate it.
Dr. Kirk and Dr. Allenbaugh spent years buying and deploying clinical technology inside health systems before either one worked for a vendor, and they run the room that way: skeptical of pitches, focused on what actually works.
As Chief Clinical Integration Officer at WakeMed Health & Hospitals, David bought the technology, then had to answer to his board for whether it worked. It did, and the numbers are public: roughly $10 million at WakeMed. He is now CMO at Regard, and he still rounds on patients. His LinkedIn is where he works out these arguments in public: cognitive spoofing, the battle of the bots, whether it’s becoming unethical not to use AI in inpatient medicine.
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Renee led the same work at Penn Highlands Healthcare, a rural system where every clinical hour is already spoken for. Her team didn't take the vendor's word on ROI. They ran their own internal study and found $7 million in increased revenue, plus two hours a day back per provider. Today she is Regional Chief Medical Officer at Penn Highlands and a Physician Executive at Regard, working on the clinical models and AI governance.
