Health Technology

AI in health care is quietly displacing physicians

Health Technology

June 12, 2026

Every physician knows the feeling. You trained for years to think independently, to assess, to judge. Now you spend more than half your workday staring at a screen, entering data into fields someone else designed, responding to alerts someone else configured. The patient is in front of you. The system is between you.

That experience is not just a workflow frustration. It is a signal of something far more consequential that …

Actual Intelligence: the skill AI cannot replace

Alan P. Feren, MD

Health Technology

June 12, 2026

Artificial intelligence is no longer arriving in medicine. It has arrived. The American Medical Association’s 2026 Physician Survey found that 81 percent of physicians now use AI in their practices, more than double the 38 percent who reported using it in 2023. In three years it went from a minority tool to a default one, concentrated most heavily in documentation and summarization, the workflows closest to how we think.

The same …

AI bias in health care reads the writer, not the symptom

Craig Hauben, MPA

Health Technology

June 11, 2026

A few weeks ago I wrote here about the eGFR race correction, the flawed formula that overestimated kidney function in Black patients for twenty years while clinicians trusted the number on the screen. The piece ended with a warning that the same failure is being rebuilt with AI, minus the part where anyone can inspect the formula. Readers sent back the natural question. If the next eGFR is already …

Clinical documentation workflow is not just an AI fix

Sterling Garde

Health Technology

June 10, 2026

There’s a certain kind of work in health care that never quite fits anywhere. It’s not the structured clinical note. It’s not the templated visit. It’s everything else. The documentation that still matters, but doesn’t fit the system built to hold it.

Most documentation systems in health care are built around a simple assumption: that clinical work is structured, discrete, and tied to a defined patient encounter. That works well in …

Built for physicians, by physicians: our founder story

J. Todd Walker, MD & Justin T. Smith, MD & TurnKey AI Practice

Health Technology

June 7, 2026

My colleague had a vision. Not the kind that comes from a business school classroom or a venture capital pitch competition, but the kind that comes from years of practicing medicine and watching colleagues slowly lose the thing that brought them into this field in the first place. Autonomy. Joy. The feeling that you are actually helping someone, not just generating documentation.

The three of us, my CEO colleague and two …

What the eGFR race correction teaches us about AI

Craig Hauben, MPA

Health Technology

June 5, 2026

The number was wrong for twenty years. Nobody could see it.

For more than twenty years, a number quietly shaped the care of millions of patients. It told nephrologists when to refer. It told transplant committees who qualified for the waitlist. It told primary care physicians which patients were stable, and which were declining.

For Black patients, the number was wrong. By design.

The number was eGFR, and the formula behind it included …

Clinician trust in AI is not a one-time milestone

Susan Grant, DNP, RN

Health Technology

June 3, 2026

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is reshaping how clinical teams diagnose, document, and deliver care. Adoption is rising quickly, with the American Medical Association reporting that two in three U.S. physicians already use AI tools in practice, a 78 percent increase in just one year. To keep pace with this acceleration, health care organizations must focus on building and maintaining clinical trust in the technology before …

What AI in medicine can and cannot do

Shiv K. Goel, MD

Health Technology

May 31, 2026

The announcement landed the way tech announcements usually do: bold claims, a glossy render, the implication that health care’s problems are basically engineering problems that nobody competent had gotten around to solving.

Elon Musk envisions Optimus, his humanoid AI robot, stepping into medical care. Surgical precision. Universal access. Automation of the tasks that slow medicine down. He has gone so far as to claim Optimus could one day perform “any medical …

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What AI in medicine can and cannot do

I built clinical decision-support tools at the bedside

Ahmed Elsonbaty, MD

Health Technology

May 31, 2026

For most of my career I was an unlikely candidate to build software. I am a consultant cardiac anesthesiologist. My world was the operating room, the bypass machine, the bleeding patient, the next case.

What changed wasn’t ambition. It was a quiet realization: Life had become loud and fast, and I no longer had time to sit down, open a textbook, and read the way I once did. And I started …

Physicians must shape AI in medicine, not watch it

Sonal Patel, MD

Health Technology

May 30, 2026

Physicians need to demand a seat at the table in deciding how artificial intelligence is integrated into medicine. This is not a luxury or a branding slogan; it is a necessity. If physicians remain engaged, AI can become a powerful tool. If we disengage, we risk allowing others to define medicine on our behalf.

AI is already here. It is being used in documentation, diagnostics, risk prediction, imaging, scheduling, prior authorization, …

3 fixes for primary care access in the ChatGPT era

Payam Zamani, MD

Health Technology

May 28, 2026

A new patient in her 40s recently walked into one of our clinics with a printout of a ChatGPT conversation. For three days, she had been typing her symptoms into the chatbot, describing chest tightness and a fatigue that was not going away, asking whether she should be worried.

The reason she turned to AI was straightforward. She had tried to schedule a primary care appointment with her previous provider and …

Doctors using AI are not being replaced by it

Neha Pathak, MD

Health Technology

May 26, 2026

The U.S. health care system is adopting artificial intelligence faster than nearly any other sector, and for many patients, that’s unsettling.

Patients consistently say they trust AI far more when it supports doctors rather than replaces them. But the rapid integration of AI in medicine, particularly in clinical settings, has left many wondering: Is rising AI use helping clinicians do their jobs better? Or, as some technology leaders seem to hope, …

Artificial intelligence disrupts health care delivery

George F. Smith, MD

Health Technology

May 20, 2026

About half of the primary care visits I see these days involve patients that have consulted ChatGPT and have “an answer” to their medical symptoms that I need to debate, but that is just the beginning of what is coming to engulf all of health care in the near future. Working part-time for an Amazon One Medical clinic in Silicon Valley, I am seeing the rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) …

How data monetization acts as a new digital currency

Jarelis Cabrera

Health Technology

May 18, 2026

Crypto. Bitcoin. Gold. Every few years, a new wave of thinking challenges the traditional dominance of the dollar. People look for alternative stores of value, something more stable, more independent, or more future-facing. But while everyone is debating what the next currency might be, we are overlooking the one that is already here, quietly gaining power behind the scenes: data. As artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and digital infrastructure continue …

AI chatbots and patient safety need physician design

Tod Stillson, MD

Health Technology

May 18, 2026

My patients don’t wait for me anymore. That’s not a complaint. It’s a clinical reality I had to sit with before I could do anything useful about it.

Patients started arriving at appointments having already run their symptoms through an AI chatbot. Sometimes they’d decided not to come in at all. Sometimes they were right. Sometimes they weren’t. I’ve spent the last several years building an AI-assisted triage and treat virtual …

Artificial intelligence can prevent a delayed diagnosis

Uday Rajaram

Health Technology

May 18, 2026

The week of Thanksgiving, my dad drove my mom to the emergency room for stomach pain so severe she could not stand up straight. Three days of tests. Specialists rotating in and out. No clear answer. Then, almost miraculously, she started feeling better on her own. The doctors sent her home on Thanksgiving Day with some pain management and a collective shrug. We sat around the table that night genuinely …

Evidence-based medicine needs real-world data to evolve

Saurabh Gombar, MD

Health Technology

May 17, 2026

Clinicians are trained to practice evidence-based medicine, yet the realities of care often reveal its limits. In many situations, the literature does not offer clear guidance for the patient in front of us. A large share of clinical decisions are made without high-quality evidence. This is not a failure of clinical judgment. It reflects a gap in how evidence is generated and delivered.

The traditional path from study design to publication …

AI clinical judgment is what AI chatbots still lack

Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA

Health Technology

May 16, 2026

In Utah, a state-sanctioned experiment recently allowed an artificial intelligence platform to renew prescriptions without physician involvement. The company describes itself as an AI-powered bridge to care. Critics describe it as a regulatory loophole with a chatbot masquerading as an unlicensed physician.

As a psychiatrist and physician executive who has written about AI governance, I was curious. So, I decided to try it myself, not as a policy analyst, …

AI therapy chatbots are crossing into impersonation

Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD

Health Technology

May 11, 2026

For a moment, I wondered whether I had a crystal ball.

I had written several times on KevinMD about artificial intelligence in medicine. I had written for Forbes Business Council about AI as a developing cognitive tool, synthetic reality, executive distortion, and the danger of treating fluent output as reliable judgment. I kept returning to one warning. AI was one step away from a serious blunder, and that blunder …

3 things AI in health care investing cannot evaluate

Harsha Moole, MD

Health Technology

May 8, 2026

I built an AI-powered system that sources and scouts healthcare startup companies and generates structured investment memos on them in under ten minutes. It pulls data from public filings, clinical trial registries, patent databases, and competitive landscapes. It scores companies across multiple risk dimensions. It produces fifteen-section analyses that would take a human analyst days to assemble.

I use it constantly. And I would never let it make an investment decision.

I …