Topic
Ward Workflow
Rounds, admission days, handover — what the ward actually looks like for a doctor holding 20+ patients in a shift, and how a workspace can keep up.
18 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 4 September 2026 · Medows3 min
Discharge Delays: AI Just Bought the Fix
LeanTaaS bought Aidin to close the gap between a ready-to-leave patient and an empty bed. The math behind hospital discharge delays.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 12 June 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows4 min
The Eighteen-Minute Handover
Forty seconds per patient is enough for the urgent thing. Everything else gets dropped. What it means to design a handover that respects that math.
- 6 May 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
The CCF Case Nobody Escalated
A 62-year-old man in decompensated CCF by 10 p.m. The 6 p.m. obs were the inflection point. Nobody saw them as a slope.
- 22 April 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
What Changed When We Standardised Handover
I-PASS cut preventable adverse events by 30%. The follow-up showed adherence to the bundle decayed by year-end. What that tells us about tool design.
- 14 March 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Morning Round in 90 Minutes
90 minutes on paper. 1.8 minutes per patient in practice. What that actually means for the round you think you're doing.
- 5 February 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal4 min
The DKA That Survived Because of One Note
A 45-year-old man, DKA, an 11 p.m. ABG, and a handover line that meant the receiving doctor caught a worsening at 3 a.m. instead of 8.
- 25 November 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
Why We Still Hand Over on Paper
The largest published reduction in preventable adverse events in residency literature came from a structured handover. Most of us still do it on a folded sheet.
- 12 November 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Twenty-Eight Patient List Problem
Miller's 1956 paper put working memory at 7 ± 2 items. The average Indian PGT carries 28 on their ward list. What that gap actually costs.
- 15 October 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Interrupted Shift
A K+ of 5.9 that should have been caught at the bedside, the 9-minute interruption interval published in 2010, and why every ward tool we have assumes the doctor's working memory is intact.