Insights and Innovations in Healthcare AI Solutions

Danny van Leeuwen wears many hats in healthcare. Five hats on a coat rack tagged Patient, Nurse, Caregiver, Advocate, Informaticist — illustrating the perspective of a patient-centered healthcare AI advocate

What Patients Actually Want From Healthcare AI (And What’s Missing)

The Pattern in the Chart In 2009, after another cardiac workup that resolved before the...
Illustrated diagram showing an iterative product development cycle in healthcare AI, titled '40 to 50 Iteration Loops · 9 Months · One Customer.' A circular feedback loop connects three versions of a clinical note interface (v1, v2, v3), with a doctor and a product developer conversing in the center. Annotations describe key product insights: 'I will not verbalize every finding,' 'but labs come back later,' and 'iterate again.' The hand-drawn, blueprint-style illustration emphasizes deep customer discovery and rapid prototyping in clinical workflow software development.

When 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...
Barry Chaiken MD MPH healthcare IT leader and AI in healthcare expert

The 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...
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When AI Meets Real Patients: Inside Sanofi’s AI-Powered Clinical Development Pipeline

In Part 1 of our conversation with Matt Truppo, the story was about AI doing...
MYCIN rule-based expert system Stanford 1970s clinical AI

50 Years of Clinical AI: What We Built, What We Lost, What Still Hasn’t Changed

The Question That Never Changed Fifty years into the story of medical AI, one question...
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When AI Moves Past the Mundane: Inside Sanofi’s Drug Discovery Pipeline

For 30 episodes of Practical AI in Healthcare, we've documented a recurring pattern. Guest after...
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The AI Works. Now What?

The convergence nobody planned We didn't ask our guests to coordinate. Giovanni Donatelli builds medical...
Amy Price

The Unfinished System

Amy Price was hit by a yellow Corvette at a stop sign. Broken neck. Ruptured...
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Who Should Control Patient Data — and Why Has It Never Been Patients?

Shashi Shankar never wanted to be an entrepreneur. After nearly a decade at Genentech and...
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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,...