Archive for July 2026
Build With How Clinicians Think, or Build Against Them
Most conversations about clinical AI start with the algorithm. Dr. Vimla Patel would rather start with the clinician. Patel has spent four decades as a cognitive scientist studying a deceptively simple question: how do expert doctors actually think? The answer turns out to have direct consequences for every team building AI for healthcare. Two directions…
Read MoreThe Doctor Who Diagnosed Himself  — and Now Wants to Watch the Algorithms
Peter Embà opens his own keynotes with a patient case. The patient is him. For nearly two decades, he had symptoms that kept getting explained away: headaches, sweating, tremors, a racing heart. As he puts it, “Like a good doctor, I explained most of these things away in my head.” In 2017 it escalated to…
Read MoreRecords Travel, But They Don’t Translate: The Interoperability Shift Nobody Noticed
For two decades, interoperability was the slide nobody believed. Every conference, the same data silos, the same promise that this time it would be different. So when our guest told us he can now pull back 85 to 90% of a patient’s actual record from almost anywhere in the country, the right reaction was skepticism.…
Read MoreAfter Five Episodes, What Still Has to Be Human?
Every few episodes, we stop interviewing and start synthesizing. This is our sixth Reflections episode, covering five healthcare AI conversations: Sarah Rossetti, Jeff Smith of ONC, Hugo Campos, Fred Bennett, and Zak Kohane. Usually we go looking for one thread to tie a block together. This time we decided not to force it, and that…
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