The Secret to Healthcare AI? It's Not Artificial.
After years deploying AI across academic medical systems, one lesson stands out: healthcare AI succeeds through human partnership, not technology alone.
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Notes on model independence, multimodel orchestration and the governance that decides whether an AI agent is safe to deploy, from the team running the platform inside academic medicine.
After years deploying AI across academic medical systems, one lesson stands out: healthcare AI succeeds through human partnership, not technology alone.
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