Healthcare Policy
Governance Over Fear: Building Safe, Transparent Healthcare AI
When new ideas challenge long-held medical beliefs, fear often delays progress. In the 1980s, researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren were ridiculed for suggesting that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, caused most ulcers. Years passed before the medical community...
Trust in Healthcare AI: Lessons for Leaders
Healthcare has always struggled to balance innovation with trust. In the early 1990s, as personal computers became affordable and the Internet became widespread in hospitals, electronic health records (EHRs) promised a revolution. Paper records were hard to access,...
Who Should Lead AI in Healthcare?
This summer, I explored how artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare—and why its most significant potential will remain untapped unless we change not only how we use it, but who leads its deployment. AI is no longer theoretical. It is here, embedded in...
AI Must Augment Clinical Judgment, Not Replace It
In aviation, the path to safety was paved not by better engines but by better communication. In the aftermath of several deadly airline accidents in the 1970s, the problem was not mechanical—it was human. Pilots and crew failed to speak up, share critical...
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...
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...
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...