Clinical AI

Surreal landscape showing a clinician in a white coat, overwhelmed, facing a giant tsunami wave composed of medical paperwork and data, a conceptual illustration of healthcare information overload and burnout.

Build With How Clinicians Think, or Build Against Them

07/26/2026

Most conversations about clinical AI start with the algorithm. Dr. Vimla Patel would rather start...

An illustration demonstrating gaps in patient communication and clinical AI. Three people walk away from a medical clinic with distinct thought bubbles: a man checking a healthcare app, a woman holding a grocery bag planning a healthy diet, and an older patient cheering about being allowed to eat cake.

The Patient Is the Forgotten End-User of Clinical AI

06/21/2026

When Fred Bennett's father came home from a cardiology follow-up, the family held an impromptu...

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

05/10/2026

The Bet In 2023, three Yale data scientists — David Hidalgo-Gato, Jackson Pullman, and a...

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

04/19/2026

The Question That Never Changed Fifty years into the story of medical AI, one question...

The EHR Was Just the Scaffolding: Bob Wachter on Why AI in Healthcare Is Different This Time

02/15/2026

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

02/08/2026

The warning signs of psychosis can appear years—sometimes decades—before a first episode. Kids show up...

Josh Geleris

The Translation Problem Nobody Talks About

01/18/2026

Every hospital stay generates a staggering amount of data. Lab results, vital signs, imaging reports,...