Archive for September 2026
Right for the Right Reasons: How OpenEvidence Picks, and Grades, the Evidence
Doctors hallucinate, Travis Zack says, and he means something specific. A physician seeing 20 patients a day has no time to look up the paper behind every call, so they go with their gut. And that gut, he told us, is “pulling from weights just like a language model would pull from weights without context…
Read MoreA Lot of Law, Almost No Precedent
In May, Steve heard Randi Seigel speak at a conference in New York and asked what seemed like the obvious question: has any of this healthcare AI law actually been tested? Her answer, as he remembers it, was that it’s a lot of best guess. On this episode, Randi, a partner at Manatt who leads…
Read MoreThe Edge Is in What the Room Doesn’t Know
A public company has earnings, margins and a history. A pre-seed company has a pitch deck and a founder. So early-stage investors fall back on gut feel, and they call it judgment. Greg Raiz thinks that’s fixable. He built a Boston software shop that shipped some of the first apps in the App Store, grew…
Read MoreThe Machine That Remembered Her
The front door of American healthcare is a telephone, and it does not work. Industry estimates for how many calls to a practice go unanswered run from roughly a quarter to over 40 percent. Roughly half of the people calling wanted to book a visit. Practices have thrown IVR trees, answering services and offshore call…
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