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Will AI replace primary care physicians?

Tech

January 15, 2026

Primary care providers and primary care medicine are on the downswing in the U.S., burdened with increasing demands of documentation and numerous complicated quality programs in the face of rapidly diminishing reimbursements. While the tribe is disappearing fast, enter its newest nemesis: artificial intelligence (AI).

You might wonder why AI is detrimental to primary care and primary care physicians. The common notion is that physicians, including primary care physicians, will be …

AI in medicine: Why it won’t replace doctors but will redefine them

Tod Stillson, MD

Tech

January 12, 2026

I have spent my career practicing medicine in the real world: caring for patients, managing uncertainty, and making decisions where the stakes are personal and immediate. In recent years, I have also spent considerable time designing and deploying medical software that uses artificial intelligence in live clinical environments. Together, these experiences have reshaped how I think about the future of our profession.

That combination of experiences has led me to a …

Claude for Healthcare vs. administrative burden: a physician’s review

Shiv K. Goel, MD

Tech

January 12, 2026

Last week, I spent over two hours on a prior authorization for a patient who needed a medication she’d been stable on for years. Two hours of hold music, transferred calls, and faxed forms, while patients waited.

That same week, Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare: An AI system that can verify coverage requirements, build claims appeals, and streamline prior authorizations in minutes. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health days earlier. Both promise to …

Why remote patient monitoring needs a preventive shift

Chris Darland

Tech

January 10, 2026

We’ve been thinking about remote patient monitoring (RPM) the wrong way.

Picture this. A patient comes home from the hospital after a cardiac scare. They’ve got a smart scale on their chest, maybe a blood pressure cuff on the counter, and a nurse scheduled to stop by later in the week. The care team, the patient, and the tech are all working together in the hopes that things don’t get worse.

The …

ChatGPT Health in hospitals: 5 essential safety protocols

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Tech

January 9, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering clinical spaces, and ChatGPT is among the tools drawing increasing interest. Hospitals recognize their potential to reduce administrative burden, improve communication, and support clinical decision-making.

But with this potential comes responsibility. Deploying large language models (LLMs) in health care without proper oversight can lead to misinformation, privacy breaches, and erosion of patient trust. Before implementation, hospitals must establish a framework grounded in safety, ethics, and …

AI in medicine risks: the new Oracle of Delphi?

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Tech

January 5, 2026

“The danger isn’t that AI is too powerful; it’s that we stop questioning it.”

Artificial intelligence in medicine is often described as revolutionary, capable of diagnosing disease, predicting deterioration, and automating once-human decisions. But I want to suggest a different lens, one drawn not from technology, but from history.

Let’s go back to ancient Greece.

There, leaders turned to the Oracle of Delphi not for …

Agentic AI in medicine: Moving beyond ChatGPT

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Tech

January 3, 2026

At this point, numerous individuals have become engaged with ChatGPT. We’ve asked it to summarize a complex patient history and draft a discharge summary or explanation of a rare clinical concept. At first, it feels like magic. However, after several weeks, that same old feeling of frustration returns. Why does this still feel like more work?

The problem is not that technology is lacking. The problem is that ChatGPT was never …

The loss of storytelling with ambient AI systems

Alexandria Phan, MD

Tech

December 25, 2025

Laura, my department chair, is relentless in her enthusiasm for ambient AI systems in clinical care. Daily emails, weekly reminders, and even personal demonstrations; she’s convinced this is the future of medicine. Watching her, I can’t help but feel both admiration and unease. Her excitement is genuine, but I wonder if we’re rushing toward something we don’t fully understand.

And in many ways, she’s right. There’s a quiet joy in having …

The consequences of adopting AI in medicine

Jordan Liz, PhD

Tech

December 23, 2025

Across society, AI is being adopted at an staggering rate. In medicine in particular, AI is helping physicians analyze diagnostic tests, calculate disease risk, summarize patient history, and formulate treatment plans. Health care administrators are using AI to manage and optimize workflows. Insurance companies report that AI is improving consumer service, expediting claims, and detecting fraud. AI-assisted medical research is discovering new drugs to combat Parkinson’s, …

Why AI in medicine elevates humanity instead of replacing it

Tod Stillson, MD

Tech

December 13, 2025

When I trained in medicine, the learning path was predictable. Long nights of memorizing anatomy. Standing beside seasoned physicians in hospital hallways. Slowly absorbing the craft of diagnosis through repetition and proximity. It was an apprenticeship built on pattern recognition, intuition, and accumulated wisdom.

What I did not learn was how to practice medicine in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. That education came much later. It arrived quietly at …

How an AI medical scribe saved my practice

Ashten Duncan, MD

Tech

December 6, 2025

When I wrote my first novel last year, I grappled with the ethical implications of using a large language model to guide my writing process (one I have been carefully refining for decades). Prompt after prompt, my mind became inundated with the notions of how every query consumed a not insignificant amount of energy and the black box of the generated text’s origins. “Am I relying too heavily on this …

Innovation in medicine: 6 strategies for docs

Jalene Jacob, MD, MBA

Tech

November 21, 2025

Medicine thrives on structure. Protocols, guidelines, and standards safeguard patient outcomes and reduce error. Yet the same structure that preserves consistency can quietly suppress creativity.

For physicians who dream of improving systems, innovating within such rigid frameworks can feel like trying to work inside a box. But structure and creativity do not have to be opposites. Oftentimes, the struggle lies in how we spark creativity in a system built for safety.

The …

AI in medical imaging: When algorithms block the view

Gerald Kuo

Tech

November 18, 2025

He spent his youth memorizing lungs. That was how he learned chest X-rays, not by chasing abnormalities, but by studying thousands of perfectly normal films until his eyes could sense when something was ever so slightly wrong. “If you don’t know normal,” he would tell residents, “you’ll never understand abnormal.”

He was a chest physician, not a radiologist, yet his skill with chest imaging became legendary. At Taipei Veterans General Hospital, …

Physicians must lead the vetting of AI

Saurabh Gupta, MD

Tech

November 11, 2025

Walking out of the cath lab one night after taking care of a patient with an acute myocardial infarction, a thought crossed my mind. In cardiology, we would never deploy a new device without vetting it. Before a stent ever touches a coronary artery, it undergoes bench testing, animal trials, and human studies to prove safety and efficacy. This process typically takes years, and in some cases, decades. Data points …

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Physicians must lead the vetting of AI

Why Medicare must embrace AI support

Ronke Lawal

Tech

November 10, 2025

America’s mental health system is failing its seniors, caught in a perfect storm of: a rapidly growing population, a severe shortage of geriatric psychiatrists, and a Medicare model buckling under the weight of chronic, costly conditions. For millions of older adults living with anxiety, depression, or isolation, the system offers little or no treatment; often, the nearest provider is hours away, and waitlists stretch for months. …

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Why Medicare must embrace AI support

Modernizing health care with AI and workflow

Christina Johns, MD

Tech

November 10, 2025

As a physician, I know all too well what clinicians in the U.S. today are up against. We’re being asked to do a lot more with a lot less. We’re tasked with producing more complete and accurate clinical documentation, reviewing endless notes, coding our own charts, and improving patient flow, all while providing the best patient experience and ensuring quality scores are optimal. All in a day’s work, right?

Our hippocratic …

How to adopt AI in health care responsibly

Dave Wessinger

Tech

November 7, 2025

To give you an idea of how rapidly AI adoption has occurred, I recently reviewed the minutes of a company leadership meeting from last year. The topic of AI was almost entirely absent, receiving only minimal discussion. Compare that activity to today, where we’ve developed dozens of applications that actively utilize some form of AI, and hold daily meetings where it is the sole topic of discussion.

If your organization’s experience …

Is it time for the VA to embrace virtual care?

Kent Dicks

Tech

November 6, 2025

Is it time for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to fully embrace virtual care?

The VA has long been one of America’s great health care innovators. From pioneering electronic health records to building one of the first truly integrated care systems, the VA has often been decades ahead of the private sector.

But today, the system is straining. Nearly 94 percent of VA facilities face physician shortages, and 79 …

Systematic neglect of mental health

Ronke Lawal

Tech

November 3, 2025

For the third time in six weeks, a 34-year-old woman sat in an emergency room, desperate for help, and for the third time, the system failed to see her. It saw her dehydration, severe enough to require IV fluids. It saw her malnutrition, with electrolyte imbalances that required correction. It saw her vision problems, concerning enough for an ophthalmologic consultation. It saw everything except the person suffering. Each time, the …

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Ethical AI in mental health: 6 key lessons

Ronke Lawal

Tech

October 28, 2025

As a founder developing AI systems for mental health support, I have wrestled with a fundamental question: How do we use AI to expand access while maintaining patient-provider trust? Building an AI Mental Health Copilot has shown me that the ethical challenges are as complex as the technical ones, and far more consequential. The mental health crisis demands innovation. AI copilots offer scalable, always-available support to bridge care gaps caused …

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