Insights and Innovations in Healthcare AI Solutions

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The Scaffolding Problem: Why Raw AI Fails at Clinical Trial Matching

Most AI clinical trial matchers ask patients five or six questions — age, gender, disease,...
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The Unsexy Problem That Could Break Healthcare AI

For 37 years, Charlie Harp has been telling healthcare organizations they have a data quality...
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A Tragedy in One Word (and Two Languages)

The gap nobody checks for Every hospital has language access. Interpreters show up for appointments....
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What Happens When Your Healthcare AI Framework Meets the Real World?

We've spent 24 episodes of Practical AI in Healthcare building a way of thinking about...
Dr. Robert Wachter, UCSF's chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, poses for a portrait and speaks with chief residents Dr. Myung Ko and Sam Brondfield on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at UCSF's Parnassus campus. (Photo by Noah Berger)
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The EHR Was Just the Scaffolding: Bob Wachter on Why AI in Healthcare Is Different This Time

Bob Wachter has seen this movie before. As Chair of Medicine at UCSF, he watched...
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When Language Reveals What’s Coming: AI-Enabled Early Detection of Psychosis

The warning signs of psychosis can appear years—sometimes decades—before a first episode. Kids show up...
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The Definitional Chaos Hiding Under Real-World Evidence

In 2008, about five companies sold access to real-world healthcare data. Today, that number exceeds...
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When 25% of Diagnoses Are Wrong: AI Takes on Rare Pediatric Cancers

Pediatric sarcomas are rare enough that even expert pathologists might see a particular subtype only...
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The Translation Problem Nobody Talks About

Every hospital stay generates a staggering amount of data. Lab results, vital signs, imaging reports,...
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Autonomous AI in Healthcare: What Six Years of Real-World Deployment Taught Us

When the FDA approved the first autonomous AI diagnostic system in 2018, it marked a...