Archive for August 2026
When the Machine Is Almost Always Right, Who Is Still Thinking?
Every few episodes we stop interviewing and start synthesizing. This is our seventh Reflections episode and our fifty-first overall, covering six conversations: Mika Newton on interoperability, Peter Embi on monitoring deployed AI, Vimla Patel on clinical reasoning, Renee Deehan on trustworthy consumer health AI, Christine Dymek on AI literacy, and Jeremy Harper on healthcare’s broken…
Read MoreHealthcare Skipped Its Early Adopters
Every technology healthcare ever adopted arrived on the same schedule. A bleeding-edge 5% went first, broke things, and told everyone what they learned. The majority followed, and the laggards came when they had no choice. It is slow, and easy to resent. It is also how a field learns what a new tool actually does.…
Read MoreAI Literacy Is Not a Pamphlet
Chris Dymek started in philosophy. She passed her doctoral exams, looked at friends taking one-year appointments in places they didn’t want to live, and moved into computer science instead. Programmer, systems analyst, director of re-engineering at a utility, a doctorate in organizational change, CTO of a small health organization in Tucson, then EHR implementation in…
Read MoreThe AI That Refuses to Guess
Scroll wellness social media at one in the morning, as Renee Deehan admits she sometimes does, and you’ll find an endless stream of confident advice. Most of it rests on a single study with sixteen participants. “That’s great that that study said MCT oil was going to lower your cholesterol,” she says, “because there’s six…
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