AI in Healthcare
The fast-moving edge of artificial intelligence in care — ambient documentation, imaging, decision support, agentic workflows, and the big-tech and infrastructure bets shaping what comes next. Analysis from a pharmacist-CEO who builds with these tools, not just writes about them.
Human Capital, Token Capital, and the One Variable Satya Left Out
Satya 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.
Pharma's $1 Billion Bet on AI Drug Discovery: What the Numbers Actually Say
Q1 2026 saw a surge in pharma-AI partnerships:
Agentic AI Crosses the Chasm in Healthcare: Who Is Actually Deploying
March 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
Three 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
A 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
At 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...
Stop Buying AI Tools. Start Designing AI Architecture.
I talk to health system CIOs every week. The pattern is consistent.
Perplexity Wants to Be Your Health Copilot. Should It Be?
On 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
Google 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
AWS 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
On 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
At 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...