Tag: AI in Healthcare
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The Jagged Frontier of Medical AI
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AI can reason faster than medicine can prove an answer right. A framework for understanding where medical AI can act independently, where it needs supervision, and why biology keeps its own clock. Read more
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The Patient Will See You Now
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Patients have spent years becoming better informed. AI is beginning to help some of them make the first move in their own care. What changes when a patient arrives with a draft plan, and who gets that chance? Read more
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AI Jevons Paradox: Why AI May Create More Work, Not Less
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When AI makes a task cheaper, the work around it may grow. What software developers and medical scribes reveal about shrinking roles, expanding responsibilities, and the conditions that give human work a lasting place. Read more
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The Blinking Cursor Returns: Finding My Childhood in the AI Agent Era
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A blinking cursor has brought back the feeling of my first computer. Building with AI agents reminds me why I loved the command line, and raises a harder question about bringing that freedom into healthcare. Read more
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The Humbling Math of Health AI: Why ChatGPT Can’t Grade Your Heart Yet
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Years of Apple Watch data can look like a complete picture of your health. Making sense of it is another matter. What the work behind narrowly validated health features can teach us about the limits of a fluent AI answer. Read more
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When You Upload Your Medical Records to AI, Who’s Actually Protecting Them?
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A privacy promise is only one part of protecting a health conversation. Drawing on my experience at Apple and Verily, I explore what changes when medical records move into consumer AI, and why the architecture matters. Read more
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Your Gut Is a Value Function
Your gut isn’t mysticism—it’s a value function trained on real outcomes. Why AI decision making can’t replicate human intuition built over decades. Read more
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The New Computer in the Clinic
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Healthcare is shifting from point-and-click EHRs to AI clinical workflow. LLMs can read narratives, but safe actions need deterministic guardrails. Read more
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AI and the Prepared Mind: Engineering Luck in Drug Discovery
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AI drug discovery designs perfect molecules, but 70% die in Phase 2. The gap isn’t chemistry—it’s the embodied clinical context AI can’t replicate. Read more
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How AI Gets Paid Is How It Scales
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Healthcare AI economics depend on creating a labor dividend. AI business models must shift from billing human minutes to AI-driven outcomes. Read more