Topic
Clinical AI
How AI fits into clinical reasoning on the ward — context-grounded answers, the limits of language models, and why the doctor stays in the loop.
18 posts
- 17 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Diagnostic AI Finally Gets a Rulebook
Twelve US health systems and Aidoc formed a consortium to govern diagnostic AI, betting that shared standards beat point solutions.
- 14 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Clinical AI's Real Danger: What It Skips
The largest clinical AI safety study yet found most severe errors are omissions, not wrong answers, and purpose-built tools beat general chatbots.
- 12 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Hospital AI Pilots Work. Scaling Doesn't.
A new survey finds EHR integration, not clinician trust, is the real reason clinical AI pilots stall before they scale.
- 10 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Before AI Hits the Ward, Doctors Test It
UnityPoint has 60 physicians pressure-test AI tools before rollout, not after. What that says about verifiable clinical AI.
- 7 August 2026 · Medows2 min
Clinical AI Explanations Can Mislead Beginners
A Nature Medicine study finds AI diagnostic explanations boost novice confidence even when wrong, while trained clinicians barely benefit.
- 5 August 2026 · Medows2 min
AI Scribe or Medical Device? The UK Decides
The MHRA just clarified when an AI scribe counts as a medical device in the NHS, and what it means for the doctors relying on one.
- 4 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Which AI Can a Doctor Actually Trust?
A new leaderboard scores 18 AI models on medical safety. The general chatbots doctors reach for aren't the safest ones in the room.
- 4 August 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Finds Bias in Half of Pregnancy Notes
A new AI analysis of 640,000+ obstetric notes found stigmatizing language in 47% of pregnancies, worse for Black and less-educated patients.
- 23 July 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows3 min
AI fixed the clinical note. Not the ward round.
Ambient AI scribes cut documentation time and burnout, and that is real. But the note was never the hard part of a shift. The ward round is the frontier.
- 24 June 2026 · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari · PGT General Medicine, RG Kar Medical College6 min
Five Cases on the Ward: What an AI Workspace Looks Like in Real Use
Hyperkalemia at 2 a.m., quiet sepsis on a Sunday morning, a drug interaction caught at order time, and a handover that didn't drop the pending lab - four composite cases from Indian wards showing how Medows actually works.
- 24 June 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows3 min
Why we built Medows as a workspace, not an EHR
Most clinical AI products land in the EHR. We didn't. Here's why the doctor on rounds needs a workspace of their own, and what we learned building one alongside residents at AIIMS Bhubaneswar and RG Kar.
- 20 June 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows4 min
What "Ask Medows" Actually Means
Three things "Ask Medows" is — context retrieval, source-grounded generation, in-patient interface. Three things it explicitly is not.
- 3 June 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
Why Doctors Don't Trust AI (Yet)
Three reasons doctors don't trust clinical AI yet, in order of how often I hear them. None of them are about the AI being smart enough.
- 28 March 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
Context-Aware AI vs. ChatGPT for Clinical Reasoning
A junior doctor typing into ChatGPT on his phone gets a plausible answer. Why that answer is slightly useless for the patient three feet away.
- 3 March 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
Hyperthyroid Storm — The Case I Almost Missed
A 28-year-old with fever, tachycardia, and hypotension. Sepsis was the obvious differential. The TSH was the answer.
- 10 January 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows4 min
What 5.9 Hours of EHR Actually Looks Like
The Arndt 2017 EHR-event-log study, broken down by activity. Half an hour a day goes to navigation alone.
- 21 December 2025 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
The Polypharmacy Trap in the Geriatric Ward
An elderly man on warfarin, a new antibiotic, and the kind of interaction every pharmacy software catches — but only after the order is dispensed.
- 28 October 2025 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
Sepsis That Walks In Talking
She walked into casualty post-op, day 2, with vitals that looked fine on every check. The slope was the diagnosis.