Technology
Human Oversight and Conscience in Healthcare AI
Healthcare has long understood that safety depends on process, not perfection. Checklists, timeouts, and structured handoffs exist to prevent the predictable human errors that arise in complex environments. These principles—refined through aviation safety models and...
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...
Adoption Curves: Managing Change in Healthcare AI
Change has always been uncomfortable. Clinicians trained for decades to master their craft often find new technologies disruptive, slowing down well-established routines. Patients, too, hesitate when asked to manage their health differently, even when change promises...
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...
Debunking 5 Common Myths About Healthcare AI
Despite the breathless headlines and lofty promises, artificial intelligence in healthcare is not a magic bullet. It is not sentient, intuitive, or even particularly wise. It is a tool—and like any tool, its effectiveness depends entirely on how it is designed,...
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...
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...