Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders · 2026-03-19 · 43 min
Dr. John Brownstein has been on the leading edge of digital health since medical school, where he was drawn to epidemiology because of the opportunity to use data sets for large-scale impact beyond the exam room. He’s been on a hunt for data ever since, shaping a career that has spanned public health, technology, startups, and healthcare innovation. Dr. Brownstein helped develop Google Flu Trends, served as a healthcare advisor to Uber, and launched one of the first data analytics companies in public health, where he applied AI long before it became today’s dominant topic. In 2015, he became Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he has helped turn it into a proving ground for emerging technologies. With its manageable size, nimble culture, and an administration willing to invest in innovation, Dr. Brownstein has helped turn Boston Children’s into an ideal setting for testing emerging technology. This environment, which put Boston Children’s on the front edge of healthcare IT for more than a decade, has positioned it to help lead the current AI wave. In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Dr.
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