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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.
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Stop Buying AI Tools. Start Designing AI Architecture.
4 min readI talk to health system CIOs every week. The pattern is consistent.
Perplexity Wants to Be Your Health Copilot. Should It Be?
5 min readOn March 19, 2026, Perplexity, best known as a search competitor to Google, launched a consumer health feature that ingests EHR data and wearable device streams (Apple Health, Fitbit, etc.) to answer...
Google Bets Big on Healthcare Infrastructure, Not Chatbots
4 min readGoogle announced expanded AI healthcare tools with direct integrations into Fitbit for medical records, partnerships with CMS, Clear, and Athenahealth for EHR connectivity, and new clinical workflow...
Amazon Connect Health: The Agentic AI Wave Hits Healthcare Operations
4 min readAWS unveiled Amazon Connect Health on March 14, 2026. Five AI agents. Not five features. Five autonomous systems designed to handle end-to-end workflows without constant human oversight:
Amazon Connect Health: Big Tech's Latest Swing at Healthcare's Administrative Nightmare
4 min readOn March 14, 2026, Amazon Web Services unveiled Amazon Connect Health. Five agentic AI tools aimed at reducing administrative burden across patient engagement and clinical workflows:
CMS Signals AI Agent Era: What HIMSS26 Revealed About Medicare's Digital Future
4 min readAt HIMSS26 in Orlando (March 10-12, 2026), CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz sat down with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf to discuss how AI and digital tools can help Americans manage their own care and "stay...
Novo Nordisk v. Hims: Four Days from Launch to Lawsuit — and Neither Side Is Telling the Whole Truth
12 min readNovo Nordisk just filed its first-ever patent infringement suit against a telehealth compounder. After digging into the filings, the patents, and the global pricing landscape, I think both companies are getting it wrong.
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