The Business of Health with Chip Kahn
About this Episode
Episode 11, AI Series: In a conversation focused on the technology underlying AI in health care, Chip is joined by Seema Verma, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and now Executive Vice President and General Manager at Oracle Health and Life Sciences, the second largest electronic health records (EHR) platform in the U.S. Seema shares her insights on the evolution of EHRs and why it’s necessary to redesign these systems to better integrate AI capabilities and improve the quality of care.
The Host
Chip Kahn
Sr. Visiting Fellow
Charles N. Kahn III is a senior visiting fellow at KFF. He is also a visiting senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a nonresident senior scholar at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. He serves as co-chair of the international Future of Health collaborative.
Guest
Seema Verma
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences
Seema Verma is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, leading global strategy to modernize healthcare through data, connectivity, and AI. Previously, she served as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
A recognized industry leader, she serves on multiple healthcare boards and has been named among Modern Healthcare’s Most Influential People and Becker’s Healthcare’s Great Leaders in 2026. She has a bachelor’s degree in life sciences from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in public health from John’s Hopkins University.
SERIES
This weekly podcast features insightful conversations between host Chip Kahn and his guests, who discuss the business of health care, connecting the dots between the health care business, policy, and patients.
The podcast’s first series on AI in health care illuminates how AI is changing health care, and features guests who are deploying this technology, managing its consequences, and designing policy around it.