Healthcare IT News November 6, 2025
An executive who in his career has had oversight of nearly 70% of America’s healthcare data explains why that exact information is needed for artificial intelligence to succeed in the industry.
Fawad Butt has served as chief data officer at Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, some of the largest healthcare organizations in the country. Today he is CEO of Penguin Ai, a healthcare artificial intelligence company that works extensively with data.
For all their early promise these past few years, Butt believes large language models have reached their limit. GPT-5 disappointed users with “bland” outputs, Meta’s LLaMA 4 stumbled on long-context reasoning and OpenAI was forced to bring back an older model after backlash, he points out.
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