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Dr. Sarah Matt

Helping clinical AI move from pilot to practice

Physician, author and healthcare AI strategist focused on implementation, governance and access to care.

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Dr. Sarah Matt, healthcare AI speaker
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Focus
Clinical AI implementation, governance and access to care
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Health system executives and boards, physician leaders, CIOs, digital leaders and health technology teams
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Keynotes, workshops, breakout sessions, panels, panel moderation, fireside conversations and executive strategy briefings. In person or virtual, in English. Each engagement includes a scoping call; final duration and availability are confirmed for your event.

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Speaking topics

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Three approved sessions on clinical AI implementation and access to care. Scope each session to your audience.

01

The Cure for Pilotitis: Making Clinical AI Actually Scale

Find the decisions that keep promising clinical AI pilots from becoming routine practice. Examine pilot design, vendor commitments and ownership after launch.

  • Spot structural flaws in a pilot before launch.
  • Set vendor exit and scale criteria in the contract.
  • Assign ownership that continues after the original champion leaves.
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02

Why Your AI Pilot Will Fail Before It Launches

A practical framework for clinical AI governance that medical leaders and health technology teams can apply to their next implementation.

  • Identify five common pilot failure modes.
  • Build a governance review clinicians trust and procurement can use.
  • Ask vendors questions that expose implementation risk early.
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03

The Patient We Never Designed For

Use the Five Pillars of Access to examine where care delivery and technology miss the people they are meant to reach.

  • Diagnose an access failure using the Five Pillars.
  • Assess whether a digital tool narrows or widens the gap it targets.
  • Choose one structural change your organization can own.
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About Sarah

Clinical experience and technology leadership

Sarah Matt, MD, MBA is a physician, author and healthcare AI strategist. She advises health systems and health technology companies on clinical AI governance, physician adoption and commercialization. She trained in surgery and currently practices internal medicine in charity care.

Her experience includes healthcare product strategy at Oracle Health and leadership roles at NextGen Healthcare, Sovato and ESO. She serves as Assistant Professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Visiting Lecturer at Cornell University. She is the author of The Borderless Healthcare Revolution and host of The Clinical Realist podcast.

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What does Dr. Sarah Matt speak about?
Topics include The Cure for Pilotitis: Making Clinical AI Actually Scale; Why Your AI Pilot Will Fail Before It Launches; The Patient We Never Designed For.
Which formats does Dr. Sarah Matt offer?
Confirmed formats: keynote, workshop, panel, panel moderation, fireside conversation, executive briefing, virtual session.
How do I book Dr. Sarah Matt?
Use the Signal & Stage inquiry form; Harvey Castro, MD replies within one business day.

The Borderless Healthcare Revolution

Wiley, 2025. Sarah’s book examines physical, financial, cultural and digital barriers to care, and the trust that shapes access.

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Organizer feedback

“Her talk struck the perfect balance between inspiration and practical guidance. The audience left abuzz as she challenged us all to think differently about improving patient access to care and strengthening trust in the communities we serve.”

Jeannette Currie, SVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance. New England HIMSS Spring Conference, 2026.
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