About us
The Boston Healthcare Cloud & AI Community hosts in-person and streamed meetings and events. We have chapters in three countries to date.
We serve the international healthcare cloud community from our Boston location by providing industry experts a community to share on healthcare technology topics. Meetings are on the last Wednesday of every month.
MISSION
The Boston Healthcare Cloud & AI Community (BOSHUG) brings together a diverse group of innovators united by a shared vision, to harness the power of cloud computing and AI to improve healthcare outcomes, enhance patient experiences, and foster collaborative innovation among providers, members, and researchers.
Topics include, but not limited to: #healthcare #HIT #AI #medtech #IndustryCloud #PatientExperience #PatientCare #healthtech #healthit #WomenInHIT #EHR #EMR #FHIR #medtech #PatientExperience #healthcloud #HLS #FHIR #hybridcare #healthequity #acutecare
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Upcoming events
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Designing Human-Centered AI in Healthcare
5 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA, USHealthcare is one of the most complex and high-stakes environments for applying AI.
Beyond technical performance, success depends on how well AI tools integrate into real clinical workflows, support human judgment, and earn trust from providers.
📢 Get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
In this February community meetup, we’re excited to welcome Mia (Yingran) Zhang, Senior UX Designer at athenahealth, for a practical and thoughtful session on designing human-centered AI in healthcare.
Session Overview:
This session shares real-world lessons from designing AI-powered healthcare tools that:- Support clinical reasoning rather than replace it
- Improve workflow efficiency without adding cognitive burden
- Balance innovation with responsibility in regulated, high-risk environments
- Bring design, data, and engineering together through close collaboration
Attendees will gain insight into how thoughtful UX and human-centered design principles play a critical role in making AI usable, trustworthy, and effective in healthcare settings.
Who Should Attend
This session is ideal for:- Healthcare technologists and AI practitioners
- UX designers and product managers in health tech
- Engineers and data scientists building AI-driven systems
- Clinicians, researchers, and digital health professionals
- Anyone interested in responsible, human-centered AI in healthcare
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📍 WHERE & WHEN:
Date: WEDNESDAY, Feb 25th at 5:30 PM EST
Venue: To be announced📢 If you're attending in person, please get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
As always, our BOSHUG meetups are community-driven and welcoming. Whether you’re building, designing, deploying, or evaluating healthcare AI systems, you belong here.
We look forward to seeing you in February for another engaging conversation at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and human-centered design.
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Past events
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