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46

AMDIS Roundtable - Restoring Clinical Cognition in the AI-Ready EHR

In this AMDIS Roundtable, Dr. Eve Cunningham (Cadence), Dr. Howard Landa (Adventist Health), and Dr. Deepti Pandita (UCI Health) explore what it really means to build an AI-ready EHR. Moving beyond features and vendor roadmaps, they examine how data governance, workflow design, and clinical validation shape the physician's day — from inbox overload to exam-room disconnect. Together, they discuss shadow AI, cognitive burden, and the hard tradeoffs between optimizing legacy workflows and redesigning care. Their message is clear: the next generation EHR isn't about adding more technology — it's about restoring clinical cognition and rebuilding trust in how care gets delivered.

EPISODE GUESTS

Deepti Pandita

UCI Health

Chief Medical Informatics and AI officer

Dr. Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA, is a prominent clinical informaticist, healthcare executive, and academic who serves as the Vice President of Clinical Informatics, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Chief AI Officer at UCI Health, the academic medical center for the University of California, Irvine. In these concurrent roles, she spearheads artificial intelligence (AI) governance, digital transformation, and clinician efficiency frameworks, focusing on deploying ambient documentation and AI-driven workflow solutions to mitigate cognitive burnout among medical staff. An Associate Professor of Medicine and faculty member for UCI's Clinical Informatics Fellowship program, she previously served as the Chief Health Information Officer (CHIO) and fellowship program director at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis. Dr. Pandita is a leading national advocate for health equity and bridging digital health disparities among underserved populations. Her national leadership includes serving as a Board Member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Chair of the Medical Informatics Committee for the American College of Physicians (ACP), and co-authoring the ACP's national policy position paper on AI in healthcare provision. Board-certified in both internal medicine and clinical informatics, she earned her medical degree from Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, and completed her residency training at the University of North Dakota.

Eve Cunninham

Cadence

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA, is a prominent physician executive, entrepreneur, and digital health innovator with over two decades of experience designing and scaling advanced clinical operating models. She currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer (CMIO) at Cadence, a remote patient care delivery organization where she spearheads the continuous care infrastructure for national chronic disease management. Dr. Cunningham is also the founder of MedPearl, an AI-assisted and EMR-integrated clinical decision support platform that she incubated while serving as the Group Vice President and Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health at Providence. At Providence, she led nine enterprise virtual care service lines—including hospital-at-home and virtual nursing initiatives—and successfully grew MedPearl until its acquisition in January 2026. A board-certified OB/GYN, she maintains her clinical practice on a contract basis with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, where she previously held multiple leadership roles, including Division Chief of Women’s, Children’s, Virtual, and Prompt Care Services. Dr. Cunningham also contributes widely to industry discourse as a contracted healthcare writer for Forbes, covering women's health and clinical technology transformation.

Howard Landa

Adventist Health

Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Dr. Howard Landa is a seasoned executive and leader in the field of medical informatics, currently serving as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Adventist Health. He began his medical career in 1990 as a pediatric urologist at Loma Linda University before transitioning to healthcare information technology in 1996, driven by a philosophy that technology should be leveraged to enhance patient care, operational efficiency, and clinician satisfaction. Over his distinguished career, Dr. Landa has held several high-level administrative roles, including Vice President of Clinical Informatics and EHR at Sutter Health, CMIO at Alameda Health System, and CMIO for Kaiser Permanente’s Hawaii Region. An active figure in the broader health IT community, he has spent over two years as the Chairman of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), has been heavily involved with HIMSS, and earned his Doctor of Medicine from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School followed by training at the Baylor College of Medicine.
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