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9 domains that will define the future of medical education

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June 12, 2025

A comprehensive 2025 framework on medical education reform has laid bare a critical challenge: The traditional path to becoming a doctor is failing to meet the demands of modern health care. The consequences are stark: 70 percent of medical students report frequent feelings of burnout, persistent health disparities remain entrenched, and a median debt of $200,000 is pushing graduates away from essential careers in primary and public service care.

This new …

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Key strategies for smooth EHR transitions in health care

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June 11, 2025

Healthcare organizations continue to face financial and operational efficiency pressures to implement or upgrade their electronic health record (EHR) systems, driven largely by the push for greater interoperability and the need to consolidate disparate systems. While the benefits of modern, integrated EHR systems are clear, the path to successful implementation remains complex and challenging for many organizations.

The foundation: Stakeholder engagement and leadership buy-in

The success of any EHR implementation hinges on …

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Why flashy AI tools won’t fix health care without real infrastructure

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June 10, 2025

There’s a growing disconnect between the promises being made about artificial intelligence in health care and what’s being delivered. If you’re a health system leader, it’s time to take a discerning view—not because AI lacks potential, but because many of the solutions entering the market are more marketing than medicine.

We’ve seen this dynamic before.

Earlier this month, a fintech founder was charged with defrauding investors after promoting an AI-powered shopping app …

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Why innovation in health care starts with bold thinking

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June 6, 2025

Let’s bust a myth: Health care is not just about rules, protocols, and playing it safe. In fact, real breakthroughs happen when we dare to think differently.

Whether it’s improving patient outcomes, solving staffing gaps, or designing more human-centered workflows, the future of health care demands creative thinking at every level.

And no—you don’t need to be an “artist” to be creative in medicine.

Why creativity is no longer optional

Health care is under …

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How self-improving AI systems are redefining intelligence and what it means for health care

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June 5, 2025

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, poised to reshape research, health care delivery, and medical decision-making. A new interactive slideshow delves into this shift, highlighting self-improving AI systems like the Darwin Gödel Machine and autonomous AI development.

Here are the key takeaways and their implications for medicine and beyond.

The age of self-improving AI has arrived.

Until recently, AI systems relied heavily on human engineers to design and tune their capabilities. That’s changing. The …

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How blockchain could rescue nursing home patients from deadly miscommunication

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June 5, 2025

Imagine a health care team treating your elderly loved one—without the full picture. This is the reality of the U.S. health care system. Our system is failing nursing home residents, the most vulnerable population, by dragging out an outdated, inefficient data-sharing system. To improve nursing home care, health data must be efficiently shared and organized across hospitals and facilities, ensuring tailored treatments for patients with complex conditions. Unfortunately, existing Read more…

How AI is revolutionizing health care through real-world data

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June 1, 2025

Turning real world data into insights

A lot has been said and written about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance and improve health care. And while there are still many challenges to overcome and questions to answer, one area in particular shows dramatic positive results.

The use of AI to unscramble the unstructured data from electronic health care records (EHR) is uncovering previously hidden insights and bringing significant advances to …

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Ambient AI: When health monitoring leaves the screen behind

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June 1, 2025

A quiet revolution is taking place in health care technology. AI is shedding its screen-bound constraints and stepping into forms that blend seamlessly into our lives—rings, glasses, pendants, earbuds. These “ambient” devices collect real-time insights from sound, motion, and physiology, surfacing only when needed. For clinicians, this shift means more than convenience: It reimagines how we gather data at the bedside …

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Closing the gap in respiratory care: How robotics can expand access in underserved communities

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May 29, 2025

As a U.S.-licensed respiratory therapist and former ENT physician, I have seen firsthand how respiratory illnesses can devastate lives when early intervention is out of reach. From hospital wards in Moscow to respiratory units in Florida, the one constant I’ve observed is that underserved communities—whether due to geography or poverty—suffer the most. Across the United States, millions of patients living with chronic respiratory diseases like COPD and asthma lack consistent …

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Model context protocol: the standard that brings AI into clinical workflow

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May 29, 2025

The real limitation of clinical AI isn’t the model; it’s the context.

AI can draft notes, flag interactions, and read scans. However, when it comes to understanding the patient in front of you, it’s still a matter of working in the dark.

It doesn’t know the blood pressure you entered three minutes ago.

It can’t find the beta-lactam allergy buried in yesterday’s note.

It misses …

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Addressing the physician shortage: How AI can help, not replace

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May 27, 2025

The physician shortage in the United States is a real and urgent issue. Projections from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimate that by 2034, the nation could face a deficit between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians. Primary care will be particularly affected, with a potential shortfall of up to 48,000 doctors. Rural and underserved communities will likely bear the brunt of the burden.

This shortage stems from multiple …

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The silent threat in health care layoffs

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May 24, 2025

The health care industry rightfully remains vigilant against external cyber threats, with the Director-General of the World Health Organization even labeling file loss from ransomware as potentially “issues of life and death.” Patient safety and the sanctity of confidential health information are paramount—which are also the very reasons health care organizations are prime targets for malicious actors. But as economic headwinds lead to corporate layoffs and government budget cuts dominate …

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In medicine and law, professions that society relies upon for accuracy

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May 20, 2025

Integrity and trust are foundational. But today, that trust is under assault—not from human error, nor negligence, but from the sophisticated but disturbingly unreliable outputs of artificial intelligence (AI). What the media euphemistically calls “AI hallucinations” are not benign mistakes—they are dangerous fabrications, systematically undermining both clinical and legal standards.

As a psychiatrist, I confront the reality of hallucinations regularly. Patients vividly describe voices, visions, and sensations with profound distress. Hallucinations, …

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“Think twice, heal once”: Why medical decision-making needs a second opinion from your slower brain (and AI)

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May 19, 2025

Medicine demands fast decisions.

Chest pain in triage. A vague complaint from an elderly patient. A scan with subtle shadows.

But the speed that saves lives can also lead to predictable, systematic errors, especially when we trust our gut too much.

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman taught us that we do not have one mind. We have two.

System 1 is fast, intuitive, and automatic. It makes snap …

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Why fearing AI is really about fearing ourselves

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May 16, 2025

I was at a conference of physician executives and physician founders recently, and there were many stimulating conversations. The idea that AI could see us as a threat and eventually destroy us came up in various forms, often as a half-serious joke. Half-serious jokes are serious concerns. Indeed, astrophysicist Martin Rees predicted that humanity had a 50 percent chance of destroying itself this century due to technological advances and threats, …

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Health care’s data problem: the real obstacle to AI success

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May 11, 2025

As health care embraces digital transformation, one truth is clear: AI’s success depends on data quality. No matter how advanced the algorithms, poor clinical data limits their effectiveness.

AI in health care: Promise meets reality

The health care technology landscape is abuzz with large language models (LLMs) and conversational AI applications that show remarkable capabilities in synthesizing patient information and streamlining clinical workflows. Clinicians …

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What ChatGPT’s tone reveals about our cultural values

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May 11, 2025

When Sam Altman recently said ChatGPT had become “too sycophantic,” the comment landed like a small UX confession—an admission that the model had gotten a little too flattering, a little too eager to please. Most coverage treated it as a byproduct of reinforcement learning. A bug to fix. A tone issue.

But that framing isn’t neutral.

Calling AI “too nice” is a values-based judgment. And it reflects something deeper than model …

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Bridging the digital divide: Addressing health inequities through home-based AI solutions

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May 7, 2025

As a physician who transitioned into health technology leadership, my journey over the past few years has revealed a fundamental truth: The future of health care delivery isn’t confined to hospitals or clinics—it’s in patients’ homes as well. I am not just talking about patients who have to be discharged early from our hospitals, but also about patients who don’t have easy access to health care and patients who have …

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Staying stone free with AI: How smart tech is revolutionizing kidney stone prevention

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April 29, 2025

Kidney stones are painful, frustrating, and unfortunately common. I see this brutal problem every day as a urologist. When my wife had her first kidney stone while celebrating her 40th birthday, this issue became deeply personal. Seeing her in pain and struggling to navigate the confusing world of kidney stone prevention made me realize just how difficult this journey is for patients.

Many people are given generic dietary advice – drink …

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Medical school admissions are racing toward an AI-driven disaster

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April 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) and the systems based on this technology have recently emerged onto the medical scene with huge promises to “disrupt” and innovate upon traditional clinical practice. Ignoring the hype and boom-bust adoption cycles associated with most novel technology, AI will eventually settle into the daily workflow of many physicians, be it through direct use, or indirectly, through integration within EMRs, insurance approval pipelines, or …

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