EP 8 Rishi Khakhkhar MD MBA, Counsel Health

🔹 Emergency Medicine 🔹 Artificial Intelligence 🔹 Telemedicine & Virtual Care 🔹 Healthcare Technology 🔹 Medical Research 🔹 Clinical Informatics
Written By DJ Apakama

Episode 8 Show Notes

🚑 AI, Virtual Care & the Future of Telemedicine – In this episode, Dr. DJ Apakama & Dr. Ethan Abbott sit down with Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar, MD, MBA, a practicing emergency physician and founding medical director of Council Health, to discuss how AI is transforming asynchronous care, virtual medicine, and patient-provider communication​.

🎙️ Featured Guest:

  • Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar, MD, MBA – Emergency physician & digital health innovator.

  • Founder of Council Health, an AI-powered messaging-based telemedicine platform​.

  • Specializes in tech-enabled healthcare models, hospital-at-home, and digital urgent care​.

🧠 Key Topics:
✅ AI-Powered Virtual Medicine – How AI-driven chat & messaging improve patient access & provider efficiency​.
✅ Healthcare Innovation Beyond the ED – How emergency physicians are leading digital health transformation​.
✅ The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) – How AI helps with chart summarization, documentation, and diagnostics​.
✅ Challenges of AI in Telemedicine – Regulatory barriers, ethical considerations & scalability​.

📄 Paper Discussed:
📰 GSM Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models (Preprint from ArXiv, October 2024) – A study from Apple Research assessing LLMs’ mathematical reasoning limitations, revealing challenges in logical decision-making that impact AI-driven clinical tools​.

🔍 Why it Matters:
AI is changing how patients access care, but is it ready to fully replace human decision-making? This episode explores the balance between AI automation and physician oversight in digital & emergency medicine.

🎧 Listen now & explore the future of AI-powered healthcare!

DJ Apakama
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