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Guides and essays on deploying AI in healthcare, patient access, and product leadership.

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You Cannot AI Your Way Out of a Funding Cut

Washington is selling AI avatars as the fix for rural healthcare while cutting a trillion dollars from Medicaid. Here is the honest test for help versus theater.

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A Free Chatbot Outscored the Clinical AI Tools. Now It Gets Complicated.

The Quietest AI Win in Healthcare Is Matching Patients to Trials

Medicare Shipped an AI Prior-Auth System Before It Worked. Here Are the Receipts.

Agentic AI Is Quietly Eating the Revenue Cycle

The Nursing Shortage Is a Design Choice, and AI Is Being Used to Entrench It

How Do You Run a Trial for an AI That Will Not Hold Still?

The First FDA-Cleared AI That Talks to Patients Never Decides the Dose

60 Companies, One Interoperability Pledge, and the Question Nobody Is Asking

The $16 Billion Ring and the Model Healthcare AI Keeps Ignoring

What 150 AI Deployments Teach About Making It Stick

AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection: a16z's Healthcare Bet

Your Wearables Are Drowning You in Data. AI Is the Lifeguard.

2026 Is the Year Healthcare AI Has to Grow Up

Your Patients Are Already in Therapy With a Chatbot

The Same Patient, Nine Different Answers: AI's Bias Is a Data Problem

The Plumbing for AI Agents: MCP, A2A, and Why Healthcare Should Care

AI Just Walked Into Medicare's Prior Auth Office

A Surgeon Just Put On a Headset: The AR Operating Room Arrives

OpenEvidence and the Rise of the Doctor's Second Brain

The FDA Is Coming for Generative AI: What Validated Will Mean

Nutrition Labels for Clinical AI: Principles for Buying and Building Trust

Ask and Verify: The Continuously Learning Health System

Interoperability Quietly Became Real: TEFCA, FHIR, and Agentic Healthcare

Your Access Conversations Are a Dataset (Start Using Them)

The Multi-Agent Turf War and Why Healthcare Needs an Orchestrator

What the H1 2026 Funding Data Says About Your Roadmap

Reimbursement Is the Real Product Strategy for Clinical AI

The Shadow Medical System Is the New Front Door

Chat With the Chart: EHR Q&A Clinicians Can Trust

Clinician Pushback on AI Is a Product Signal

Phenotype Definitions Are the Smallest Unit of Trustworthy Data

What AI Agents Change About the PM Craft, and What They Do Not

As Consolidators Automate the Back Office, What Should You Build?

AI Is Everywhere in Health Systems. Access Is Still Broken.

When the EHR Moves Into the Access Layer

The Phone-Call Tax: Why Making Patients Call Is Costing You

Co-Clinician Is the Right Word. Here Is What It Demands.

Agentic AI Is Coming to Medicine. Cage It Where It Counts.

A Playbook for Monitoring Ambient AI After Go-Live

What a Real Outcome Study of Clinical AI Looks Like

Clinical AI Regulation Is Being Written in Rooms You Are Not In

Build On the Platform, or Build Your Own? Healthcare Roadmaps in the Agent Era

Never a Meat Proxy: Human-in-the-Loop Discipline for Clinical AI

Guardrails That Do Not Block the Doctor

State Machines or Agents? Choosing Control for Clinical Workflows

Judge the Application, Not 'AI': A Rubric for Clinical AI

AI Health Forecasting Is a Data Problem First

The Upstream Data Discipline Every AI Product Depends On

Metadata Is the Real Infrastructure Behind Trustworthy Healthcare AI

Closing the AI Governance Gap: A Validation Playbook

Document Intelligence: The Backbone of Patient Access

Access Transparency Is a Product Problem

How to Evaluate a Patient-Access Voice Agent

The role of product managers in healthcare AI