Mean heart rate is one of the most familiar numbers in medicine. Useful, immediate, and often enough for a first description. Yet every average carries the same defect: it compresses into a single value everything that happened over time. Two patients can share a mean of 70 beats per minute (bpm) and, across the same … Read more
Vasoactive-Inotropic Score as a Worked Example Introduction: The Data Is There. The Variable Is Not. Every conversation about clinical AI opens on the same premise: hospitals are sitting on enormous quantities of data. True enough, and almost useless as a starting point. An electronic health record is a transactional system, built for documentation, for billing, … Read more
From passive Q&A to autonomous agents that debate, challenge, and assist clinicians. Article authored by Michele D. Pierri, MD Cardiac Surgeon & Medical Technology Researcher Last updated: June 2026 Reading time: 15 minutes Key takeaways 1. Redefining AI in Medicine: What Is an Agentic System? The first wave of AI in healthcare gave us chatbots. … 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