Mark Mills
Founder and Executive Director
National Center for Energy Analytics
316 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20003
Mark P. Mills is the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a contributing editor at City Journal, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering, and co-founding partner in Montrose Lane. His PragerU videos have been viewed over 10 million times. He is author of *The Cloud Revolution* (2021); earlier books include *Digital Cathedrals* (2020), *Work in the Age of Robots* (2018), and *The Bottomless Well* (2005, with Peter Huber), about which Bill Gates said, “This is the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy.” He served as Chairman/CTO of ICx Technologies (2007 IPO), worked in President Reagan’s White House Science Office, and earlier was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents. He holds a physics degree from Queen’s University, Canada.
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2026-11-05
AI in Healthcare: Separating Hype from Hope with Mark P. MillsIn the Health Policy Podcast episode "AI in Healthcare: Separating Hype from Hope," Mark P. Mills, founder and executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, discusses the potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Mills emphasizes AI's role in enhancing diagnostics, improving administrative efficiency, and accelerating medical research, while addressing concerns about the technology's impact on jobs and regulatory challenges. He advocates for a nuanced understanding of AI's benefits and risks in the healthcare sector.
Notable quotes
“The misunderstandings and the hype are epic.”
“Arguably, the single most promising near-term benefit from AI is in the healthcare industry.”
“AI is going to be an incredibly— it already is— powerful research assistant to accelerate discovery.”
“25 to 35% of all healthcare spending is administrative overhead.”
“AI is really good at that and fast at getting better at that fast.”
“The holy grail in healthcare is I have a personal digital twin— me, you— and what it does is constantly harvest, securely, all of my medical data.”
“The misunderstandings and the hype are epic.”
“Arguably, the single most promising near-term benefit from AI is in the healthcare industry.”
“AI is going to be an incredibly— it already is— powerful research assistant to accelerate discovery.”
“25 to 35% of all healthcare spending is administrative overhead.”
“AI is really good at that and fast at getting better at that fast.”
“The holy grail in healthcare is I have a personal digital twin— me, you— and what it does is constantly harvest, securely, all of my medical data.”
