Archive for March 2026
The Unfinished System
Amy Price was hit by a yellow Corvette at a stop sign. Broken neck. Ruptured discs. Severe brain injury. Over four million dollars in medical bills. She was told she’d probably need to be institutionalized. She enrolled at Open University instead, with a three-digit memory span. She made a pact with her classmates to all…
Read MoreWho Should Control Patient Data — and Why Has It Never Been Patients?
Shashi Shankar never wanted to be an entrepreneur. After nearly a decade at Genentech and Roche, he was comfortable in pharma — so comfortable that when he kept encountering “API” in technology research, he assumed it meant Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. What changed was personal. His grandfather was diagnosed with late-stage gastroesophageal cancer and died in…
Read MoreThe Scaffolding Problem: Why Raw AI Fails at Clinical Trial Matching
Most AI clinical trial matchers ask patients five or six questions — age, gender, disease, stage, grade — and return what they call a match. Adam Blum, a serial AI entrepreneur diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in August 2024, tried over a dozen of them. None returned an actual match. “They try to broker you to…
Read MoreThe Unsexy Problem That Could Break Healthcare AI
For 37 years, Charlie Harp has been telling healthcare organizations they have a data quality problem. For most of those years, they told him he was wrong. “People for a long time have been saying the quality of the data is fine,” Harp told us on Practical AI in Healthcare. “And they were right —…
Read MoreA Tragedy in One Word (and Two Languages)
Giovanni Donatelli was the 8-year-old translating for his immigrant parents at doctor’s appointments. Twenty-seven years later, he built a patented AI system that translates discharge instructions inside Epic in 15 minutes — because patients are still going home with paperwork they can’t read.
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