Dr. Lynn Mikula and Evan Lyons: Partnerships Change the Equation

Peterborough Regional Health Centre's Dr. Lynn Mikula, President and CEO, and Evan Lyons, EVP, Digital Services, Strategy & Transformation and CIO, help us understand how to initiate and sustain delivery around Artificial Intelligence (AI). They value building a solid foundation around data first and then using AI as a lever to build on what's created. When it comes down to it, partnerships are key. Lynn and Evan feel strongly that no healthcare organization should figure out AI alone. Healthcare organizations are facing many of the same problems within the same system, so we should leverage the opportunity to go further together. On this episode, we embrace this idea of doing it together, discussing how organizations can navigate, adopt, and adapt to this technology. Quotables: "We need to be helping each other because it [AI] is a vast and a little bit of an alarming topic, it is constantly changing, none of us can see that far ahead of where it's going next." - L.M "I believe this technology has the potential to be deeply transformative in healthcare, deeply disruptive. Some of it will be good, some of it will be bad, a lot of it we don't understand yet. So, let's work together." – L.M "If you try to do something yourself without understanding the data first, it would be an inappropriate or incomplete use case." – L.M "The efficiencies to be gained exist in the lessons learned from other organizations who are trying to solve similar problems." – E.L "The early innovations are great, it's good for exploration, but really what we want to see is sustained delivery of these solutions at scale and that's where that 'together' mandate is really important." – E.L "The real value isn't in the technology as a standalone item. It's in the shared learning of how to apply that technology for a specific desired outcome." – E.L Mentioned in this Episode: Peterborough Regional Health Centre HIROC's Strategic Plan – The Art of Safety Patagonia Pixar Access More Interviews with Healthcare Leaders at HIROC.com/podcast

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Dr. Lynn Mikula and Evan Lyons: Partnerships Change the Equation is an episode from Healthcare Change Makers by Philip De Souza.

This episode is 37:51 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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