Mintu Turakhia, MD MS

CMO/CSO/EVP Adv Tech/Product @irhythmtech. Professor and founding director @stanfordcdh. Cardiac EP, scientist, trialist, AI builder. Views mine.

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@nmarrouche @EPLabDigest @khaldountarakji @leftbundle

[Joel Selanikio @jselanikio]

Incredibly, hospitals are now paying for AI companies to disrupt them. 🤦‍♂️

Patients linking their MyChart accounts to @OpenAI's ChatGPT rose more than 7,000% in a single month at 69-hospital @AdvocateHealth, its CIO Bobbie Byrne told @Becker’sHR.

Patients set this up themselves in ChatGPT, so that the AI can explain their lab results, scans, and doctors’ notes. You know, instead of one of Advocate's doctors.

To add insult to disruption, every time a patient asks ChatGPT a question, Advocate’s Epic system has to look up and send the records and pay for the computing resources that make that happen. AND — brace yourself — Federal law says Advocate can't charge patients, or their apps, for that access to the patient's own records.

So a health system is paying for a competitor’s access to its own patients’ records. The competitor takes away the followup visit, and the healthcare system pays for that to happen — both in lost revenue and in increased computing costs.

That’s Interpretation Migration, subsidized by the disruptee. https://t.co/GTj7Hzfd1d #DrYou #InterpretationMigration #Disruption

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

Looking forward to this. #AHA2026

[Fogarty Innovation @FogartyInnov]

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[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@deedydas My metric is (home) garage to gate: 11 min best.

[the Rich @Duderichy]

“Don’t wait til you are 66”

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

This is the way. Thanks @hmkyale for showing the world what good like.

[Harlan Krumholz @hmkyale]

We don't ask whether a model touched their prose. We ask authors to own every word.

@JACCJournals parted w/ICMJE & doesn't require disclosure of AI writing help: the rule is unenforceable, biased, & not good for medical communication.

My Editor's Page: https://t.co/veMMajWOzJ

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@Hragy POTS is very real.

[MOM @mom_agency_]

This is why GPUs cost $6,000

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

We can debate about how LLMs are going to replace books and brains, but this is still one of the greatest medical pocketbooks ever made. You just can't thumb through an LLM. Out of print.

[Stanford University @Stanford]

The most important briefings of the day.

Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@realarainmd Agree with slide slop - and love the haiku analogy.

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@drjohnm In my master’s of clinical research program, we had to present trials without slides - and were graded at it. There are clinical trial podcasters who do it well, too.

Try it. Once you do it then it helps be selective about what, if anything, to show.

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@drrahulpsharma 💯

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

The best way to limit AI slop in presentations and compel authenticity at scientific and clinical meetings is to eliminate slides entirely for most topics. If I want a comprehensive overview, I’ll ask an LLM rather than sit through 80 slides. If I want your insight, then I’ll come listen. PowerPoint has occupied only a small sliver of time in the history of medicine. #noslides

[Sripal Bangalore @SripalBangalore]

AI fatigue at conf is already here. I see presentations after presentations using the same AI format. No flaws but look the same. I cannot recall the speaker behind any of them. Other than occasional graphics, I am sticking to my style even if imperfect!! @drjohnm @SVRaoMD

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@djc795 @gregorymmarcus @BrighamWomens 💯

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

I agree — and this is an important skill. But most people can’t get to Steve Jobs level after a career where slide hygiene has not been emphasized. The late Marty Samuels from @BrighamWomens said that you should spend the first few years of your career giving talks with no slides. I didn’t understand his point at the time, but he is right.

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@SripalBangalore @drjohnm @SVRaoMD I would prefer to do away with slides entirely.

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@nikitabier Quite a run. Onwards.

[Mintu Turakhia, MD MS @leftbundle]

@chrissyfarr Kalie Dove Maguire - CPO and President at Evidently and an ED physician.