Michele Danilo Pierri 
Part 2 of the “Local AI” series — Benchmarks and recommendations for CPU-only inference In Part 1, we installed Ollama and ran our first local model. Now the question becomes: which model should you actually use? The answer depends on your hardware and your patience. On CPU-only systems, model size directly impacts speed — and … Read more
Part 1 of the “Local AI” series — A practical guide to running local LLMs on CPU-only consumer hardware You’ve probably heard that running AI models locally requires expensive hardware: a Mac with Apple Silicon, or a gaming PC with a high-end NVIDIA GPU. This isn’t entirely wrong — those setups are faster. But they’re … Read more
Local Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Promise, Privacy, and Practical Limits Article authored by Michele D. Pierri, MD Cardiac Surgeon & Medical Technology Researcher Last updated: April 2026 Reading time: 12 minutes Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering healthcare, but its adoption keeps running into the same obstacle: sensitive data. Hospitals, clinics, and research groups work with … Read more
Welcome to the first installment of AI & Digital Health: Quarterly Review — a new series tracking the most significant developments in healthcare technology every three months. Each report synthesizes research papers, regulatory updates, and industry news to provide clinicians and health tech professionals with a clear, critical picture of where the field is heading. … Read more
OpenClaw vs Claude “Cowork”: AI Agents for Healthcare Professionals Article authored by Michele D. Pierri, MD Cardiac Surgeon & Medical Technology Researcher Last updated: March 2026 Reading time: 5 minutes A practical comparison of two agentic AI approaches transforming clinical workflows, research automation, and medical documentation. The emergence of agentic AI marks a shift in … Read more
Introduction to Natural Language Processing for Medical Report Analysis: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions Article authored by Michele D. Pierri, MD Cardiac Surgeon & Medical Technology Researcher Last updated: January 2025 Reading time: 25 minutes Abstract Medical discharge summaries contain critical clinical information that remains largely inaccessible to automated analysis due to their unstructured nature. … Read more
How wearable devices and artificial intelligence are dismantling the wire-bound paradigm of intensive care—one sensor at a time. By Michele D. Pierri, MD, PhD In This Article Introduction: The Modern Monitoring Paradox A substantial share of adults now wear a device capable of tracking heart rate (HR), blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), and sleep architecture. Yet … Read more
Healthcare systems across the world have invested billions in clinical digitalization. Electronic health records (EHRs), clinical data warehouses, integrated hospital platforms, and now artificial intelligence systems have been introduced under the promise of efficiency, transparency, interoperability, and improved patient outcomes. Yet, after more than two decades of implementation, the recurring pattern remains strikingly consistent: resistance … Read more
Bergson’s Time in Acute Medicine: Why the Patient Is a Trajectory, Not a Timestamp There’s a quiet contradiction at the heart of acute medicine. We obsess over time. We count minutes. We chart vitals every few seconds. We schedule labs at fixed intervals, because if something is dangerous, surely it must be tracked. And still, … Read more
The Anatomy of Suffering: Frida Kahlo through the Lens of Medical History Introduction: Why Frida Kahlo is the Patron Saint of Narrative Medicine In the intersection of art and clinical science, few figures loom as large as Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). While often celebrated for her surrealist aesthetics and her role in Mexican Modernism, Kahlo’s work … Read more