Reading the AI half of the equation
Plain-English essays on where AI touches patient care — what it does well, where it should stay assistive, and how to keep your clinical judgment in the lead.
Longer-form essays
Standalone explainers you can read end to end — the topics worth slowing down for.
Evidence-Based Hormone Therapy: The Quality Question
12 min readHow personalized compounding and AI are transforming BHRT outcomes.
Building IntelliHealth™: AI Clinical Decision Engine at Scale
15 min readTechnical deep-dive into our clinical decision engine serving 120,000+ patients a month.
Every essay
Low Testosterone Is a Flag, Not a Prescription
12 min readA pharmacist's read of the new Lancet Healthy Longevity meta-analysis: what 24,510 men actually tell you about testosterone and cancer, and the two findings the headlines are getting backwards.
Orexin: The Brain's Wakefulness Switch, and Why It Just Produced a Disease-Modifying Drug
21 min readA friend sent me an Economist piece on orexin. Here is what a pharmacist sees in the mechanism, and why the FDA's August 5 approval is bigger than one drug.
The AI Model Is Not the Product. The Harness Is.
5 min readA pharmacist's translation of harness engineering: why the system around an AI model, not the model name on the slide, decides whether a tool is safe to trust in healthcare.
Human Capital, Token Capital, and the One Variable Satya Left Out
8 min readSatya Nadella says the firms that win will compound human capital and token capital. In healthcare, the variable he treats as a footnote is the whole game.
One in Five: The ACA Claims Denial Reality Check Healthcare Needs
5 min readKFF published updated data on ACA marketplace claim denial rates this week. The numbers are stark:
Pharma's $1 Billion Bet on AI Drug Discovery: What the Numbers Actually Say
5 min readQ1 2026 saw a surge in pharma-AI partnerships:
Agentic AI Crosses the Chasm in Healthcare: Who Is Actually Deploying
4 min readMarch 2026 marks an inflection point. Three signals that agentic AI is crossing the chasm in healthcare:
Agentic AI Moves From Lab to Clinic: What the Latest Deployments Tell Us
4 min readThree developments this week signal that agentic AI in healthcare has crossed from proof-of-concept to production:
When AI Coding Games the System: Sepsis, Billing, and the Trust Tax
5 min readA pattern is emerging across health systems that have deployed AI-assisted medical coding. The tools are generating codes that are, strictly speaking, defensible. But in aggregate, they show a...
Nvidia's Vera Rubin: The AI Cost Curve Bends Again
5 min readAt GTC 2026, Jensen Huang unveiled Vera Rubin, Nvidia's successor to the Blackwell architecture. The numbers: roughly 10x the inference throughput at comparable power draw, with new memory...
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