Artificial Intelligence
The Missing Clinical Voice in Healthcare AI Policy
In February 2024, I published Future Healthcare 2050: How AI Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey to provide a roadmap for healthcare professionals, executives, and innovators facing the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence. Four months later, the World...
The Cost of Truth: A July 4 Reflection
This Independence Day reflection explores how civic duty and medical ethics intersect in the age of AI. Watch the full video and read the essay below. On Independence Day, we honor service, sacrifice, and the enduring values that define our democracy. For many of us,...
Future Healthcare 2050 Outpaces WEF AI Report
In February 2025, I released Future Healthcare 2050 with a clear message: artificial intelligence will only transform healthcare if we lead with ethics, transparency, and human judgment. Four months later, the World Economic Forum released its white paper, Earning...
What We Learned from Future Healthcare 2050
For the past 21 weeks, we have explored how artificial intelligence can reshape the healthcare system—if we lead it with intention. We began with a foundational question: Can AI support—not replace—the patient-physician relationship? What followed was a...
Patient-Physician Journey to 2050 with Healthcare AI
n 1959, physicist Harold Hopkins developed the rod-lens optical system—a breakthrough that redefined how physicians could visualize internal structures during surgery. Just a year later, medical instrument maker Karl Storz partnered with Hopkins to adapt this system...
Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for AI
In 1965, the U.S. Postal Service introduced optical character recognition (OCR) in a Baltimore post office, marking a turning point in technological adaptation. Apprehensive about job loss, the erosion of their skills, and the new system's reliability, workers...
Healthcare AI: Honoring Legacy and Trust
As Memorial Day passes, I pause to reflect on national service and personal legacy. My grandfather traveled to the U.S. as a teenager, fleeing tyranny in Eastern Europe. He joined the U.S. Army in World War I and fought in the trenches in France. His service allowed...
Preventing Misinformation from AI in Healthcare
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles delivered one of the most consequential radio broadcasts in American history. His adaptation of War of the Worlds, presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, left listeners in a state of panic. Despite disclaimers and the...
Aligning Healthcare AI with Human Judgment and Ethics
In 1847, Hungarian physician Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis made a life-saving discovery: handwashing reduced maternal deaths during childbirth. Yet the medical establishment rejected his findings for decades. His evidence gained the respect it deserved only with the later...