Harnessing AI in a Safety Net Hospital
Join Dr. Yasir Tarabichi, Chief Health AI Officer at MetroHealth, as he shares his firsthand experience in a safety net hospital setting. He will discuss responsible AI deployment, balancing innovation with equity, and highlight MetroHealth’s successful use of EHR-based sepsis and no-show models. Dr. Tarabichi will also emphasize data interoperability and practical strategies for precision population health management, offering actionable insights from a real-world perspective.
Recording + Slides
Speaker
Yasir Tarabichi, MD, MSCR
Dr. Yasir Tarabichi is a board-certified clinical informaticist, pulmonologist and intensivist dedicated to advancing the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare systems.
He serves as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer of Ovatient, an intrapreneurial virtual care collaborative launched by MetroHealth and the Medical University of South Carolina. In this role, he spearheads an initiative that is built with interoperability at its core, facilitating unprecedented collaboration across disparate electronic health record systems and healthcare organizations.
As Director of Clinical Research Informatics, he has led multiple initiatives focusing on the integration of data analytics and AI to improve clinical decision-making and operational efficiency. He is also the inaugural co-chair of MetroHealth’s AI Advisory Committee. Dr. Tarabichi’s research interests include studying the implementation of advanced clinical decision support modalities on care processes and outcomes, with an emphasis on safe and responsible implementation of AI-supported interventions in a community healthcare setting.
