Standards and APIs can move information. True healthcare interoperability requires the governance, trust and workflow design that make the information usable. Healthcare has spent years treating interoperability as a problem of moving data. National exchange has...
As digital platforms make information increasingly accessible, the challenge is no longer simply how much we consume, but how our digital habits affect the way we process, retain, and use it. Scrolling through social media can expose us to hundreds of pieces of...
The UK and EU have reached a pivotal point in the regulation of AI in health. Both have set ambitious goals for protecting patients while enabling innovation, but success will depend on whether regulatory frameworks can be translated into responsible adoption and...
A child's vision is one of their most important developmental assets. Sight shapes how children learn, play, read, and connect with the world around them, and unlike many other aspects of health, vision loss caused by pediatric eye injuries can have consequences that...
Most clinical prediction tools get one big exam. Someone pulls a retrospective cohort, runs the numbers, shows a committee a curve, and the tool goes live. After that the exam rarely gets repeated, so model drift can go unnoticed. The emergency department keeps...
Why publish the data at all? My answer comes from my own work. We ran our study not with one AI agent but with several, and later it turned out that the numbers did not match. Without validated AI study data, data that the author answers for in front of the scientific...
I practice emergency medicine. Overnight care is where timing funds or fails any sepsis early warning tool. A recommendation that sits unconfirmed for hours is not decision support. It is wallpaper. Confirmation is the intervention Accuracy slides still dominate...
In rare tumors, oncologists know the usual story. PD-L1 is a weak compass. Tumor mutational burden is often unavailable. The evidence base was never built. So when MD Anderson investigators revisited biopsies from 84 patients in a phase 2 basket trial of pembrolizumab...
A GLP-1 follow-up appointment can produce a clear number without answering the most important question: how is this person doing? Weight remains relevant in obesity care, but a useful review also creates space for symptoms, everyday function and the practical work of...
Healthcare in the United States is facing a structural inflection point. Physician burnout remains high. Administrative burdens consume hours that should be spent with patients. Chronic disease rates continue to rise. At the same time, health systems are under...
Adding Black maternal-health statistics to data on gestational carriers and calling the sum mine doesn't make it so. The numbers don’t work that way. I’ve carried three pregnancies for other families. I’m also a Black woman. Put those facts beside two well-documented...
Last month I published a cost analysis with wrong numbers in it. Not rounded wrong. I had taken the wrong price list and the wrong tariff for cache writes, and when I recomputed, the headline figure moved. I issued a corrected version and stopped citing the first one....
The practical barriers between promising digital therapeutic research and routine care, from validation and safety reporting to staff adoption and patient experience. A digital therapeutic can produce encouraging research results, receive regulatory clearance and...
Online prescribing has moved from being a relatively niche part of healthcare to an increasingly established route through which patients access treatment. That change brings clear benefits. Patients can seek treatment discreetly, access clinicians without travelling,...
For property owners, management companies, and business leaders, few sights are more unwelcome than an empty office building. Indoor air quality may be part of the answer to filling it. In the post-pandemic era, the home office has replaced the traditional workplace...
Transfusion medicine plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by ensuring the availability of safe and compatible blood products for patients in need. Recognized globally as an essential medicine, blood remains the cornerstone of the healthcare workflow. Every few...
The most resilient health systems are not the ones that respond best in times of disruption, they’re the ones designed so that when disruption occurs, care continues and communities remain protected. Systems continue to struggle with workforce shortages, delayed care,...
A correct dimension does not guarantee a safe device Metal device quality control should translate clinical and engineering risks into measurable attributes. A machined component can match its drawing, look clean and pass inspection while still carrying a material,...