The clinical AI safety officer is becoming a real job
Job postings for the role have roughly tripled since the start of the year. What the position actually does varies enormously.
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Job postings for the role have roughly tripled since the start of the year. What the position actually does varies enormously.
Three acquisitions this quarter have moved narrow, well-validated tools inside platforms that price by the suite.
Adoption at critical access hospitals trails large systems by a factor of five. The barrier is rarely the license fee.
The performance was real. The absence of a regulatory pathway, an integration, and anyone to sue was decisive.
Health systems that built their own are increasingly buying instead, and the ones still building are unusually specific about why.
Interaction screening, dose checking and formulary substitution have quietly become the most reliable deployments in the hospital.
Six months of open reporting produced no reputational damage, one useful external bug report, and a lot of internal behavior change.
Pajama time, note length, click counts and EHR session duration all appear as headline metrics. They frequently disagree.
An analysis of failed scale-ups finds the most common missing ingredient was a person, not a capability.