Paul Uhrig
Healthcare Lawyer & Digital Health Executive | Former Chief Legal & Digital Health Officer, Bassett Healthcare Network
Paul Uhrig is a healthcare lawyer and digital health executive. He was the first chief legal officer of Bassett Healthcare Network, a rural health system in upstate New York, and served there as Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer. Before Bassett he spent 14 years at Surescripts as Chief Administrative, Legal and Privacy Officer, after serving as the company’s outside general counsel from its founding, and earlier he was a partner at Akin Gump.
He is the founder of Uhrig Health Advisory, which focuses on AI governance, regulatory policy, digital health strategy and interoperability, and is Senior Strategic Advisor to the Healthcare Trust Institute. He also serves on the advisory committee of Rainfall Health.
On Open Door Salon, alongside Eddie Qureshi of Rainfall Health, he described the questions health system executives ask before they buy AI, explained why pilots that succeed often never reach scale, and said that health data a patient puts into a consumer AI app falls outside HIPAA, which makes plain-language consent and enforcement the problems to solve. He also explained why ambient listening became the AI tool clinicians adopted fastest.
Frequently Asked Questions About Paul Uhrig
Who is Paul Uhrig?
Paul Uhrig is a healthcare lawyer and digital health executive. He was the first chief legal officer of Bassett Healthcare Network, a rural health system in upstate New York, where he served as Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer, and before that spent 14 years at Surescripts as Chief Administrative, Legal and Privacy Officer.
What is Paul Uhrig an expert in?
Paul Uhrig’s work centers on AI governance, regulatory policy, digital health strategy and interoperability, the focus of Uhrig Health Advisory, which he founded. He is also Senior Strategic Advisor to the Healthcare Trust Institute.
How does Paul Uhrig approach AI in health systems?
Paul Uhrig starts with the problem an AI tool solves and how its improvement will be measured, then asks what it will take to scale beyond a pilot. On Open Door Salon he also argued that health data patients put into consumer apps needs plain-language consent and real enforcement.
Where has Paul Uhrig worked?
Paul Uhrig has worked at Bassett Healthcare Network, where he was the first chief legal officer, and at Surescripts, where he served as outside general counsel from its founding and then as Chief Administrative, Legal and Privacy Officer. Earlier he was a partner at the law firm Akin Gump.
On Open Door Salon
“Paul Uhrig and Eddie Qureshi on How Health Systems Adopt AI and Protect Patient Data”
Paul Uhrig & Eddie Qureshi · October 14, 2026
Episode page & show notes on Open Door Salon
In this episode
- AI, bad actors and the threat closer to home
- What hospital executives ask before they buy AI
- Why AI pilots fail to scale
- Pitch versus pain point: solving a top-three priority
- Patients bring ChatGPT and Claude to the exam room
- HIPAA, the FTC and who educates patients
- The 30 days after surgery and Medicare’s TEAM model
- Why ambient listening stuck with clinicians
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