Archive for January 2026
When 25% of Diagnoses Are Wrong: AI Takes on Rare Pediatric Cancers
Pediatric sarcomas are rare enough that even expert pathologists might see a particular subtype only a handful of times in their careers. The result? About 25% of cases get inconsistent diagnoses—one pathologist says it’s one sarcoma type, another says it’s a different type requiring different treatment. Jeff Chuang, Deputy Director of the JAX Cancer Center…
Read MoreThe Translation Problem Nobody Talks About
Every hospital stay generates a staggering amount of data. Lab results, vital signs, imaging reports, physician notes, medication orders. On average, about 30,000 discrete data points per inpatient encounter. All of that has to be compressed into roughly 20 diagnosis codes before the hospital can get paid. That’s a 1,500-to-1 reduction ratio. And for decades,…
Read MoreAutonomous AI in Healthcare: What Six Years of Real-World Deployment Taught Us
When the FDA approved the first autonomous AI diagnostic system in 2018, it marked a turning point for medical AI. Not because the technology was revolutionary — but because it finally had to prove itself in the real world. Dr. Alvin Liu has been at the center of that proof. As a retinal surgeon and…
Read MoreScientific Paper Slop: How AI Is Forcing Publishing to Rethink Research Integrity
The machinery that protects scientific quality was built for a world with friction. It took time to write a paper. It took effort to submit one. It took resources to launch a journal. That friction is collapsing — and the implications are only beginning to surface. In our latest episode of Practical AI in Healthcare,…
Read More