Lauren Laux

I attribute my success to the challenges and adversity of life. They are opportunities. They are not really against us, they are meant to make us into who we are supposed to be. I think we need to see every challenge not as something working against us, but as an opportunity that shapes us into who we're meant to become.

The best career advice I've ever received is don't take it too seriously. Try to find a way to help someone, and trust yourself. I think it's important to keep perspective, focus on being useful and helping others, and have confidence in your own judgment.

Stop worrying so much. Be young. Be happy. Be joyful. Stop being so serious. I think young women need to enjoy this time in their lives and not put so much pressure on themselves. There's too much seriousness, and I want them to embrace the joy and energy of being young instead of being weighed down by worry. I also want younger women to understand that we don't have to think so linearly about our careers - that's just not life. If you look at my career, many would think it's so varied and doesn't make sense, but to me, it makes perfect sense. I'm a problem solver, and I've been solving problems in healthcare for a long time. Every problem is an opportunity to solve it and to help someone. I would hate for someone to shut down opportunities that would come their way because they were just thinking so one way about it. The obstacles in a woman's career path are very different than in a man's career path, and there are a lot more in the course of our lifetime, and I don't think anyone could understand that better than a fellow female.

Because I represent an AI clinical solution that is used regularly in patient care, the hardest thing that I encounter is helping physicians understand how to trust our solution. I need to help doctors and administrators of hospitals understand how the solution was trained, validated, tested, and how they can apply it to their population of patients. There are a lot of AI solutions out there, and they are not all made the same. Adopting these solutions is very new to the healthcare market in general, and there's not a lot of guidance on how to do it. So participating regularly in physician groups and meetings and fellow training is really important in us all being on the same page and understanding what good looks like, and how to implement a new clinical solution that could help change and save patients' lives. The challenge is that it's usually a team decision - we're getting 5 people on the same page at one time to make a decision about adopting a new solution that they're going to implement into a clinical workflow. They all have to be in agreement. The physician board has to have reviewed the clinical evidence supporting the tool, understand what the FDA guidelines are, verify that we meet the guidelines, and understand how updates are pushed out through the AI models. Then we have to align all of the technical resources that are going to help us implement the solution into the workflow, and work with all the billing team to make sure they understand how this is going to impact the patient's bills, how insurance will pay for it, and whether it's a covered solution. That is the hardest part of representing these solutions - getting all these people on the same page, both clinically, administratively, operationally, and financially.

I recently redid my values exercise, and the ones that continually come up for me are, number one overall, to know God - that's my first one, whatever he wants me to do, that's what I'm going to do. The next one is to be the best that I can be, or you could just say, be the best. And then I love my husband, or I try to outlove my spouse. These three values guide everything I do in both my work and personal life.