Prospect Theory in Healthcare
Healthcare is irrational and patients behave irrationally. Yet we continue to develop healthcare models assuming that patients are rational. Behavioral...
Echo Chambers in Healthcare
Our senses are our world. So what we perceive is what we believe. With the perceptions gleaned during a patient...
Familiarity Biases
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. And the tendency to seek the familiar out of the new...
Obesity is Complicated
Obesity is a complex medical condition treated through both behavioral changes and medical intervention. But to truly help patients cope...
COVID-19’s Honor System
The vaccine roll-out has been predictably unpredictable, with chaos now the norm. With all the uncertainty around when many will...
J&J COVID-19 Go-To-Market Strategy
Market entry may be a sprint, but market dominance is a marathon. And those who end up winning the market...
Persistent Racial Biases
The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves. In the subtle, implicit biases we continue to carry across...
Did The Pandemic Improve After Inauguration?
If perception is reality, then does the perception that the pandemic will improve under Biden create the reality that the...
Healthcare Is A (Positive) Right
The pandemic has shown that public health and individual rights have an uneasy relationship. But this does not have to...
Healthcare Trends
Financial traders will tell you that market trends are more powerful than any one trading strategy. Similarly in healthcare, we...
The Future of Healthcare Law
COVID-19 has changed much about healthcare. Its greatest change may come in how we structure and interpret healthcare law. We...
Intellectual Burdens In Healthcare
Liberty is the foundation of American culture. But liberty in healthcare often handicaps patients who are less educated about their...
Ambient Artificial Intelligence Clinical Documentation: Workflow Support with Emerging Governance Risk
Health systems are increasingly deploying ambient artificial intelligence tools that listen to clinical encounters and automatically generate draft visit notes. These systems are intended to reduce documentation burden and allow clinicians to focus more directly on patient interaction. At the same time, they raise unresolved questions about patient consent, data handling, factual accuracy, and legal responsibility for machine‑generated records. Recent policy discussions and legal actions suggest that adoption is moving faster than formal oversight frameworks. The practical clinical question is...
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