EPISODE 44
January 29, 2025

transforming primary care with ai with kameron Matthews

If AI is going to rapidly improve healthcare, shouldn’t we start at the ground floor - with primary care? Cityblock’s Chief Health Officer Dr. Kameron Matthews joins us to talk about how AI can reduce complexity and burnout, improve patient outcomes and free care teams to focus on human connections.

Here's what we covered:
  • What it takes to design with and for the communities 
  • Her work with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) to drive the development, evaluation, and appropriate use of AI in healthcare
  • Lessons Kameron learned being a student leader for the National Medical Association

Kameron reminds us that we cannot just drop new technologies onto care teams:

“We [at Cityblock] have respect for the change management that is required to bring forward these new technologies and allow our care teams to really merge them into their current day to day practice. It's not about, as we have seen for years with EHRs... putting them through some horrible modular training, but about actually bringing them to a level of understanding and being a part of the decision making of how we're adopting this technology, how we're blending it into their day to day, how it's making their job easier.”

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

As the Chief Health Officer at Cityblock Health, Dr. Kameron Matthews leads the clinical strategy and operations for a rapidly growing company that provides innovative, personalized, and accessible care to individuals and communities with complex health and social needs. She brings over 15 years of experience as a board-certified family physician, a health policy expert, and a mentor to aspiring and practicing health professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Her mission is to transform health care delivery and outcomes for underserved populations by leveraging innovative operations, data, technology, and human-centered design. She co-founded and directed Tour for Diversity in Medicine, a national initiative that educates and inspires future physicians, dentists, and pharmacists of color, and serves as a Health Innovators Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a prestigious program that fosters entrepreneurial and values-driven leadership in health care. She has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the highest honor in the field, and served as a senior executive at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where she oversaw the largest integrated health care network in the country in the Office of Community Care and later served as Chief Medical Officer of the health system. She is passionate about advancing health equity, quality, and innovation, and empowering the next generation of health care leaders.

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