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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.
38 posts
- 2 October 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Scribes: 69% Less Charting, One New Habit
A Toronto study found AI scribes cut documentation time 69.1% in simulations. Some doctors added scratch pads to keep thinking.
- 30 September 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Coding Tools: The $942M Insurer Claim
Blue Cross says hospital AI coding added $942M with no change in care. Hospitals disagree. What it means for the doctor signing the chart.
- 28 September 2026 · Medows3 min
Ambient AI Just Outgrew the Scribe
Heidi raised $340M to push ambient AI past note-taking into real clinical work. Here's what that shift means for the ward.
- 25 September 2026 · Medows3 min
Rural Hospitals Get Help Vetting AI Tools
UNC Health and Duke Health launched a $4.4M network so small hospitals without data science teams can safely vet AI tools.
- 23 September 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Discharge Notes: 32% More Editing Time
A hospital study found AI-drafted discharge summaries took 32% longer to edit than notes written from scratch, though doctors felt faster.
- 21 September 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Pushed Doctors Onto the Picket Line
150 Allina Health doctors struck partly over AI nudging billing codes and clinical calls without physician input.
- 18 September 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Scribes Reach 986K VA Visits
The VA scaled ambient AI scribes to 986,000+ visits since October 2025, running two vendors at once, not one workspace.
- 16 September 2026 · Medows3 min
Stroke AI: One More Catch Per 18 Scans
A multinational study found AI support raised stroke-detection sensitivity from 46.6% to 63.7% on plain CT, catching one more occlusion per 18 scans.
- 14 September 2026 · Medows3 min
Autonomous AI Wins Benchmarks, Not Wards
Dueling STAT essays debate if autonomous AI beats doctors. The benchmarks are real, but accountability on the ward isn't in the data.
- 11 September 2026 · Medows3 min
AI Scribes Cut Notes, Not ER Wait Times
AI scribes save 1.6 minutes per note in the ER, but a new study found wait times and patient throughput unchanged. The bottleneck isn't documentation.
- 9 September 2026 · Medows3 min
FDA TEMPO Pilot Skips AI Approval
Four AI tools now reach Medicare patients before FDA approval, under a pilot trading review for real-world data.
- 7 September 2026 · Medows3 min
OpenEvidence Hits 100% on MedQA. So What?
OpenEvidence's new AI models score a perfect 100% on MedQA. That solves a test, not the doctor's real problem on rounds.
- 2 September 2026 · Medows3 min
Hospitals Deploy AI Faster Than They Test It
92% of health systems deployed AI. Under half have a real test environment for it. A new UPMC/KLAS report maps the gap.
- 31 August 2026 · Medows3 min
When Hospital AI Overrules the Nurse
Nurses protested Palantir's hospital AI over staffing and care calls, as a California bill would keep the final say with clinicians.
- 29 August 2026 · Medows · Dr. Susmita Maji · Junior Resident, Paediatrics, B. C. Roy Hospital5 min
Sodium is a neurological observation
Sodium climbed for a full day after correction started. That's the point where it stopped being a fluids problem.
- 28 August 2026 · Medows3 min
Ambient AI Scaled. Consent Didn't.
Ambient AI scribes went from pilot to standard practice. Patient consent and data governance did not scale with them.
- 26 August 2026 · Medows3 min
FDA Cleared 1,357 AI Devices. Only 3 Proven.
FDA cleared 1,357 AI medical devices. A new study found only 3 were tested on whether patients actually got better.
- 24 August 2026 · Medows3 min
The AI Scribe Rollout That Actually Stuck
Cleveland Clinic put an AI scribe in front of 4,000+ clinicians in 16 weeks. The lesson wasn't the model. It was the rollout.
- 21 August 2026 · Medows2 min
Diagnostic AI's 95% Accuracy Problem
New research: data leakage inflates AI schizophrenia-detection accuracy by up to 30%, exposing why near-perfect diagnostic AI claims deserve real scrutiny.
- 19 August 2026 · Medows3 min
FDA Will Grade AI Like It Grades Doctors
The FDA wants feedback on grading generative AI medical devices the way it evaluates physicians: by competency, not just code.
- 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.