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I keep thinking about this headline from this week. "New Rural Health Funding Only a Bandage for Medicaid Wound." That is not hyperbole. That is the operating reality for every FQHC and community health center ...

I keep thinking about what happened this week in radiology. The FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to two generative AI tools that do not just detect findings on a chest X-ray. They draft the radiology ...

Medicare just did something it has never done before. 🚨 I keep thinking about what this actually means. Starting July 1, 2026, CMS is launching the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge Program. For the first time in ...

Unpopular opinion: AI scribes are a bandage on a bullet wound. Every major health system is racing to deploy ambient AI documentation tools. Epic, Oracle Health, Microsoft, Nuance, and a dozen well-funded startups are all ...

I keep thinking about why AI still can't change a doctor's mind. Not because the models are bad. Some of them are genuinely impressive. But impressive models and useful tools are not the same thing. ...

I keep thinking about how we are building AI on top of a security disaster. Healthcare is the most attacked industry in America. Not finance. Not energy. Healthcare. The HHS Office for Civil Rights breach ...

Why do we keep buying healthcare AI that nobody uses? Health systems spent an estimated $45 billion on AI and analytics tools in 2025. That number is climbing in 2026. And yet, when you walk ...

The hospitals serving the poorest patients may not survive this bill. As the Senate takes up the reconciliation package in June 2026, one of the quieter provisions is getting very little attention outside of hospital ...