S1, E37 - Danny van Leeuwen, MPH, RN, Health Hats: Patient's POV on AI Tools

Danny van Leeuwen is a nurse of 50 years, a multiple sclerosis patient, host of the Health Hats podcast, and a serial member of national outcomes panels at CMS, AHRQ, PCORI, and the National Academy of Medicine. He has tried more than 100 health apps and uses five. In this episode, he explains how he uses AI to interrogate his own chart, surface symptom patterns, and prepare for clinical encounters, and he shares his Three T's and Two C's framework for evaluating any digital health technology: Time, Trust, Talk, Control, Connection. The conversation covers what patients want from AI, what they do not, and why pain, fear, and cognition still escape the data.