After the Bitter Lesson
How healthcare AI actually gets built in the foundation model era.
FDA Cleared, FDA Approved, FDA Authorized
A field guide to healthcare AI’s most misused words, and the evidentiary realities they obscure.
What “Clinically Validated” Actually Means
A single phrase covers at least four different evidentiary realities. Learning to tell them apart is the first move in reading healthcare AI.
The Literature Is a Debate, Not a Record
Healthcare AI claims often arrive as facts. The safer way to read them is as arguments shaped by evidence, incentives, peer review, and the missing data still outside the published…
The Power of Zero: How Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Became Cardiology’s Most Underused Prevention Tool
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring shows whether atherosclerosis is already in your coronary arteries. Inside the Agatston origin story, the MESA evidence base, the Power of Zero, the AI tools…
The Forgotten Organ: How AI Just Revealed the Thymus as a Master Regulator of Longevity and Cancer Survival
Two landmark studies published in Nature used AI-powered deep learning to show that thymic health predicts longevity, cardiovascular risk, and cancer immunotherapy outcomes, rewriting decades of assumptions about adult biology…
AI Outdiagnoses Emergency Room Doctors in Landmark Harvard Study: What It Means for the Future of Medical Care
A peer-reviewed study published in Science finds OpenAI’s o1 model correctly diagnosed 67% of real emergency room cases, beating two attending physicians and triggering one of the most consequential debates…
The Future of Wearable Blood Sugar Monitoring: From Glucose Tracking to Metabolic Intelligence
Wearable glucose monitoring is moving beyond diabetes management toward a broader era of metabolic intelligence, where CGMs, rings, watches, and AI begin to connect food, sleep, stress, and exercise into…
FDA AI in Sleep, Respiratory, and Anesthesia: Medical AI Moves Into Breathing and the Bedroom
The FDA’s anesthesiology category shows how medical AI is moving into sleep apnea detection, respiratory sound analysis, PAP therapy comfort, bedside monitoring, and the continuous physiology of everyday life.
FDA AI in Urology: The Smaller Surgical Side of Medical AI
FDA AI in urology is still early, with the current FDA list showing a smaller Gastroenterology-Urology category shaped by endoscopy, surgical robotics, and procedural vision.
