I recently attended a conference on AI in healthcare, like so many taking place across the country. The room was electric. Slide after slide promised a revolution: flawless predictions, fewer mistakes, faster diagnoses. Some speakers...
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In my most recent article in Fast Company, I discuss the issue that seems to be a major topic of discussion across traditional and social media: Are we in an AI bubble? As I examine in this article,...
For anyone that has dealt with the US healthcare system in any way imaginable, there's mounting frustration. For those of us who have sought care for various issues, we know that barriers and confusion await...
Keeping up with the theme of the first post of 2026 (US Healthcare Enters 2026 With A High Degree of Uncertainty!), in this recently published article in Fast Company, I discuss some of the foundational problems with the US...
As we turn our attention to a new year, those of us who live and breath healthcare are holding our breaths to some degree! Why? A slew of major legislative and policy changes in 2025...
It's hard to believe that we're now doing 2025 recaps already! I was just writing the 2024 recap for this blog. And, in my last article of 2024 for Fast Company, I had made some...
Given the range of pressing issues in the news these days, there doesn't seem to be enough bandwidth for much else. Geopolitical tensions from China to Ukraine, ongoing pandemic, and a range of economic issues,...
In the last post we talked about the difficult task facing the Fed with interest rates. If interest rates are raised to cool off excess demand and at the same time the short-term drivers of...
In the last post, we discussed the issue of the 4-decade high inflation and what is causing it. In previous posts, I had reviewed the data from the last few decades and how there has...
In the last few months, we have extensively discussed the issue of inflation. My focus has been on examining the drivers of inflation, why it picked up after years of dormancy, whether it's transient (whatever...
US posted higher economic growth than China last year for the first time in decades. This was due to a strong government response to the pandemic and the underlying dynamic nature of the US economy...
The financial sector of any economy is very different than any other sector. It supplies the key ingredients for all of the other sectors of the economy: Capital! Any problems in this sector rapidly disseminates...
