AI in Healthcare Blogs

The third chapter in my recent book, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, is titled “Barriers to AI Adoption in Healthcare”.  If anyone has ever been involved in trying to introduce new technology into the practice of … Read More

In my latest article for the Fast Company Executive Board, I opine about whether AI will be a job creator or job destroyer and whether it will raise or lower wages. I examine previous periods of rapid technological advancement and … Read More

Back in March, I wrote about the state of private market investments in health AI. While my focus was digital health and more specifically, health AI, the macro trends in private market investing, and especially VC investing was a major … Read More

In part I of this series, we discussed the massive projected economic gains from AI over the coming years and decades. Given the very bullish projections about AI’s potential future impact and economic upside, many companies, old and new, are … Read More

This past 2 years, venture funding has been increasingly moving toward companies that are building AI solutions for different industries. As a matter of fact, by some accounts, AI companies now account for more than half of the venture capital … Read More

In my latest article for the Fast Company Executive Board, I write about the real risks to the long-term health of the US innovation economy. This is the economy that nurtures ideas that become world-changing technologies and products. How does … Read More

In the first article in this series, I discussed the evolution of healthcare coverage for a large part of the US population, previously uninsured, over the last 15 years. While the number of the uninsured dropped precipitously after the passage … Read More

The recent passage of President Trump’s major domestic agenda bill, referred to as  “Big Beautiful Bill’  (BBB) means that there are major changes in how healthcare is paid for in the US. This is the most drastic change to healthcare … Read More

In the first post in this series about whether apps, wearables, and other cool new tools are actually making an impact on our health, I examined the evidence from the real-world use of these tools. Unfortunately there has been a … Read More

Since the release of iPhone and the mobile revolution (late 2000’s,) the health and wellness space has gone through major transformations. Having a smart phone in everyone’s pockets meant that you could load up that device with all kinds of … Read More