Archive for May 2026
What a Nurse’s Charting Pattern Knows Before the Vitals Do
Every hospital early-warning system makes the same assumption: to predict if a patient is deteriorating, watch the patient. The vitals, the labs, the telemetry. Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD, built one that watches the nurse instead, and on National Nurses Day, she became the first nurse to join us on the show. Her system is called…
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Generalist vs. Specialized AI in Healthcare: Five Lessons
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The Pattern in the Chart In 2009, after another cardiac workup that resolved before the test results came back, Danny van Leeuwen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He had had it for 25 years. The pattern was in the chart the entire time. Twenty-five years of episodes that kept getting read as possible heart trouble…
Read MoreWhen AI Eats Software, What’s Left? Workflow Understanding as the Last Moat
The Bet In 2023, three Yale data scientists — David Hidalgo-Gato, Jackson Pullman, and a third co-founder — formed Cleo Health on the heels of the ChatGPT release. The premise was deliberately broad: take generative AI and make healthcare better. The execution was deliberately narrow: pick one specialty, go a mile deep on its workflow,…
Read MoreThe Physician Who Became a Patient and What It Taught Him About AI in Healthcare
When the Doctor Becomes the Patient Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, has spent decades in healthcare IT. He was the Board Chair of HIMSS. He has raised money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through 200-mile charity bike rides. And when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he almost got treated at a community hospital without a…
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