September 24, 2026
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5 stories
An EHR upgrade renamed two lab fields. The model kept scoring, kept firing, and kept looking healthy on every dashboard the team had built.
One system's account of an AI program that spent almost all of its budget on plumbing, and would do it again.
Contracts increasingly specify what happens when a tool is retired: data return, output archival, and a defined wind-down that does not require the vendor's cooperation.
A security review found that standard de-identification left enough structure for a general purpose model to link records across datasets.
Systems that maintain a complete inventory of deployed models make decisions faster and have far fewer surprises during audit.