Adoption crossed a threshold this spring. The interesting question is no longer whether scribes work, but what they quietly changed about the note itself.
August 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft framework would let approved clinical models update on new data, in exchange for continuous performance reporting and a hard rollback obligation.
An EHR upgrade renamed two lab fields. The model kept scoring, kept firing, and kept looking healthy on every dashboard the team had built.
Job postings for the role have roughly tripled since the start of the year. What the position actually does varies enormously.
Eleven hospitals trained without moving data. The performance is respectable, the coordination cost was enormous, and the paper is unusually honest about both.
A survey of 4,200 adults finds broad support for disclosure — and much less agreement about what should happen next.
By Elie Toubiana · 2 min read
Predicted census is accurate. Predicted acuity is not, and the schedules built on it are producing shifts that the model considers adequately covered.
By Elie Toubiana · 2 min read
Turnaround times have collapsed. A rising share of denials cite reasoning that reviewers on both sides describe as difficult to argue with or against.
By Abdelmoumin Mokthari · 2 min read
One system's account of an AI program that spent almost all of its budget on plumbing, and would do it again.
By Elie Toubiana · 2 min read
Researchers propose scoring clinical models on appropriate abstention, arguing that confident answers on out-of-scope cases are the dominant real-world failure.
By Abdelmoumin Mokthari · 2 min read
Three acquisitions this quarter have moved narrow, well-validated tools inside platforms that price by the suite.
By Abdelmoumin Mokthari · 2 min read
A deterioration model with excellent discrimination produced no change in outcomes. The rapid response team was already stretched.
By Elie Toubiana · 2 min read
