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In this episode, Lucia Savage, Founder and CEO of Savage Healthcare Strategies, examines how AI and consumer health technologies are challenging traditional approaches to healthcare privacy and regulation.

Lucia explains why HIPAA alone cannot address the evolving digital health landscape and how state privacy laws are expanding consumer protections. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the entire health data lifecycle, particularly as AI models introduce new risks around data reuse and re-identification.

The conversation explores patient consent, transparency in AI-enabled interactions, and the responsibility of developers to build appropriate safeguards into their solutions. Lucia also advocates empowering patients to use AI tools with guidance from healthcare professionals. Her message to healthcare leaders is that thoughtful regulation and responsible innovation can coexist, with privacy and trust becoming competitive advantages. Take a listen. 

Lucia C. Savage is a nationally-recognized expert on health care regulation, digital health and health information privacy. Using strategic advice to advance digital technology to deliver health care, she drives organizations’ health care innovation while helping them adhere to the highest standards for privacy, security, clinical fidelity, and patient safety. She retired from Omada Health, Inc. in March of 2026 after helping Omada go public (OMDA) in June 2025. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Tidepool, Inc., and Academy Health, and is an Advisor at Claimable, Inc. In April 2026 she launched Savage Healthcare Strategies, whose mission is to help innovators implement smart ideas to fix healthcare. Current work focuses on ensuring consumers can get their own data without special effort, and helping pre-seed through A round sized companies navigate the complexities of healthcare regulation.

Lucia is Rock Health’s 2021 “Top 50 in Digital Health” for her policy acumen and digital health advocacy, and is a contributing author to Amazon bestsellers “Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture and Governance,” and “Advanced Health Technology: Managing Risk While Tackling Barriers to Rapid Acceleration. She has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on health information interoperability and digital health, and published with colleagues on safe, responsible, and private use of individuals’ data to develop AI for healthcare.

Prior to joining Omada, she served the Obama Administration as Chief Privacy Officer at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Lucia has a B.A. with Honor from Mills College and received her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from New York University School of Law.