The DocBuddy Journal

Host Erik sits down with Dr. Peter Stetson, Chief Medical Information Officer at TigerConnect, to discuss the unsolved problem that’s been hiding in plain sight: care orchestration. This isn’t about better EHRs or more tech tools. It’s about what...

Healthcare organizations want AI. Everyone does. But there’s a problem: they’re waiting for a guarantee that’s never coming. Host Erik sits down with Marten den Haring, Ph.D., MSc, CEO of Lirio, to address the elephant in the room. Health systems...

In this episode of the DocBuddy Journal, host Erik Sunset digs into a new real-world case study showing what happened when DocBuddy Op Note rolled out across all 12 sites. Every center improved. Every center landed between 1.66 and 2.82 days to bill. The network...

Host Erik Sunset sits down with Marc Ryan, Strategic Advisor and GM at MediSolv and author of The Healthcare Labyrinth, to break down a serious, bipartisan healthcare reform proposal that’s actually achievable. Links from the show: Marc’s Healthcare...

Host Erik talks with Dr. Angela Sturm, a facial plastic surgeon based in Houston, about a kind of burnout the surveys don’t capture. It’s not bad EHRs or staffing shortages—though those matter. It’s something quieter and more corrosive: the...

The numbers are in, and for once in American healthcare, some of them are good. Host Erik Sunset breaks down the KLAS Research Arch Collaborative Clinician EHR Experience 2026 report — 92 health systems, 121,000 clinicians, one year of data — and what it reveals...

Alex Fernandez, CEO of Synergy Orthopedic Specialists and a 30-year veteran of physician practice management, joins Erik Sunset and The DocBuddy Journal to talk about what actually makes or breaks a physician group integration — and it’s not always the...

The average American physician is now walking away from medicine at 48 years old. Not retiring. Not transitioning to leadership. Walking away entirely—nine years before the system expected them to. And the number one reason they cite? Not pay. Not hours. Paperwork....

In this episode, Erik breaks down what this certification actually means, why it matters, and what it signals about the maturity of AI in healthcare. This isn’t about slowing innovation—it’s about validating before deploying. Eighty-one percent of...

A landmark study just tracked 224,629 surgeons over a decade, and the findings are a wake-up call for every surgery center administrator in the country. Nearly 10% of surgeons left clinical practice within an eight-year period — and in some specialties, the numbers...