The Business of Health with Chip Kahn
October 12, 2026
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About this Episode
Episode 19, AI Series: Health care’s AI future is being built right now. The open question is “for whom?” Dr. Uché Blackstock — emergency physician, former associate professor at NYU School of Medicine, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, and author of The New York Times bestseller “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” — joins host Chip Kahn to argue that AI governance should be shaped not only by regulators and review boards, but by the communities the tools are meant to serve. Dr. Blackstock explains why she is skeptical of technology that presents itself as neutral, how average performance can conceal unequal harm, and what equitable AI design would require. She also makes the business case for equity and describes trust as infrastructure that can be designed into the system. Will the AI revolution reach the patients American health care has historically failed — or pass them by?
The Host
Charles N. Kahn III is a senior visiting fellow at KFF. He is also a visiting senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a nonresident senior scholar at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. He serves as co-chair of the international Future of Health collaborative.
Guest
Dr. Uché Blackstock is founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, a strategic consulting firm that partners with leaders and organizations across health care and public health to build more equitable, accountable systems where everyone can thrive. She is an emergency physician, health equity strategist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.
Prior to founding Advancing Health Equity, Dr. Blackstock served as an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone Health and as faculty director of recruitment, retention, and inclusion in NYU Langone Health’s Office of Diversity Affairs.
Recognized by TIME on its inaugural TIME100 Health list in 2024, and by Forbes and Fortune for her leadership, Dr. Blackstock helps organizations move from intention to measurable change.
SERIES
This weekly podcast features insightful conversations between host Chip Kahn and his guests, who discuss the business of health care, connecting the dots between the health care business, policy, and patients.
The podcast’s first series on AI in health care illuminates how AI is changing health care, and features guests who are deploying this technology, managing its consequences, and designing policy around it.
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