Pediatric AI at Scale: How Valley Children's Is Closing the Care Gap in California's Central Valley

Pediatric AI at Scale: How Valley Children's Is Closing the Care Gap in California's Central Valley

Author: HealthIMPACT Live August 11, 2026 Duration: 36:49

AI in pediatric healthcare is often talk, not delivery. Joe Egan, CIO of Valley Children's Healthcare, walks through the three layers of AI his team runs today, and how each one turns clinician time back into access for kids.

In this conversation:

  • The three-layer AI model Valley Children's uses: assist, inform, and act, sorted by risk and human oversight
  • Why ambient documentation earned a clinician wait list, and the metrics that prove it (pajama time, time in notes)
  • How Epic Cosmos and shared de-identified data help with rare pediatric disease
  • Why an adult-trained AI model can't be assumed safe for children
  • The governance and ownership model that makes technology actually stick

Joe Egan, Chief Information Officer, Valley Children’s

Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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