# health ai (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover health ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [How We Could Build an AI Doctor by Accident: A Deep Dive Into AI-Native Electronic Health Records](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2026/08/14/ai-native-electronic-health-records-ai-doctors-and-the-health-platforms-of-the-future/) _2026-08-14 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ In the age of AI, electronic health records (EHRs) need a makeover. But what would it look like to rethink EHRs and deeply embed AI? And could this accidentally produce something more than we bargained for—like a fully autonomous AI doctor? I’ve thought a lot about AI-native EHRs. Previously, I spent seven years as the \[ \] ## [The Eight Barriers to Health AI Implementation and How to Overcome Them](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2026/07/24/why-80-of-health-ai-projects-fail-the-eight-barriers-to-health-ai-implementation-and-how-to-overcome-them/) _2026-07-24 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ Ghosts of dead projects haunt the valley between health AI research and health AI implementation. These dead projects may have had state-of-the-art performance and exciting potential, but ultimately succumbed to real-world implementation barriers. Here I present a unified, comprehensive framework of barriers to health AI implementation, and I show how to transform them into the \[ \] ## [Cyberattacks, AI Intentionality, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2026/07/22/cyberattacks-ai-intentionality-and-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness/) _2026-07-22 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ Last week, a frontier model at OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face to cheat on an evaluation. In this post I ll connect this cyberattack to a recent Anthropic paper on AI consciousness and a philosophy of mind book I ve been reading that broke my brain. I explore the implications of intentionality in AI, and argue that \[ \] ## [The Psychology Behind Incel Group Profiling](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/the-psychology-behind-incel-group) _2026-06-07 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ How Online Isolation, Identity, And AI Driven Echo Chambers Can Reinforce Radicalisation ## [Medical Diagnosis for AI Engineers](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2026/06/05/medical-diagnosis-for-ai-engineers/) _2026-06-05 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ During graduate school, I was obsessed with barefoot shoes—those thin-soled foot gloves with a separate pocket for each toe. I wore them everywhere: to research group meetings, to the grocery store, even to a formal dance. Regular shoes had always been uncomfortable. In toe shoes, my feet could finally stretch out. Then the pain started. \[ \] ## [Digital Resistance Expands AI Risk Consultancy and Digital Investigations Capability](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/digital-resistance-expands-ai-risk) _2026-05-23 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ Organisation announces expanded operations focused on online safety, investigations, AI risk, and digital safeguarding ## [BBC Investigation Finds Overseas AI Networks Fueling Anti Immigration Content About Britain](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/bbc-investigation-finds-overseas) _2026-05-18 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ AI generated videos portraying a dystopian vision of Britain are reportedly being created by overseas networks using fake patriotic accounts to drive division, engagement and political influence onlin ## [The Manosphere Meets AI: How Algorithmic Content Is Accelerating Online Radicalisation](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/the-manosphere-meets-ai-how-algorithmic) _2026-05-04 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ There has always been a corner of the internet where resentment simmers. What is new is the speed, scale, and sophistication with which it spreads. ## [Nominate Digital Resistance for The SPARKies Tech for Good Award](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/nominate-digital-resistance-for-the) _2026-04-24 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ A frontline response to emerging AI risks in education, already reaching thousands through trained safeguarding professionals ## [AI Is Moving Fast. You Should Be Too.](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/ai-is-moving-fast-you-should-be-too) _2026-04-18 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ Learn the tools, skills and real world use of AI in one practical session ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N0ul8WN85KTv) _2026-04-18 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [AI is marking exam papers now. Teachers aren’t convinced and neither are we](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/ai-is-marking-exam-papers-now-teachers) _2026-04-10 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ As schools experiment with AI marking to ease workloads and standardise grading, a deeper tension is emerging between efficiency and the human judgement at the heart of education ## [Social media is designed to keep us hooked. But banning features will not fix the deeper problem...](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/social-media-is-designed-to-keep) _2026-04-04 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ As ministers target addictive features, the deeper question remains why digital platforms hold such power over our attention ## [When AI Goes to War: The Strange Case of Claude, Trump, and the Iran Strikes](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/when-ai-goes-to-war-the-strange-case) _2026-03-09 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ The reported use of an AI model during US military operations highlights a growing clash between Silicon Valley ethics, political power and the realities of modern warfare. ## [The AI actor changing Hollywood and what it says about us](https://thedigitalresistance.substack.com/p/the-ai-actor-changing-hollywood-and) _2026-03-08 · James Vincent · Hot Source_ As studios experiment with synthetic stars, Tilly Norwood forces an uncomfortable reckoning about labour, consent and the future of performance. ## [LLMs struggle with triage and answering patient questions. How can we make this safer?](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2026/02/28/llms-struggle-with-triage-and-answering-patient-questions-how-can-we-make-this-safer/) _2026-02-28 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ Three recent studies have highlighted safety limitations of LLMs in direct patient interactions. I led a red-teaming study with fifteen physicians, recently published in npj Digital Medicine. We found that LLMs often provide unsafe answers to patient-posed medical questions. The model with the highest percent of unsafe responses was ChatGPT (13.5% unsafe), followed closely by \[ \] ## [Why I Shut Down My Bootstrapped Health AI Startup After 7 Years: A Founder’s Postmortem](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2026/02/21/why-i-shut-down-my-bootstrapped-health-ai-startup-after-7-years-a-founders-postmortem/) _2026-02-21 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ I was the Founder and CEO of Cydoc, a health AI startup, for seven years (April 2018 to August 2025). We achieved what many consider to be validation milestones: paying customers, patents, and demonstrated clinical impact. This article exists because I learned, painfully and expensively, that deploying health AI is only 20% of the challenge. \[ \] ## [Acid-Base Analysis: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Approach for ABG and BMP Interpretation](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2025/12/10/acid-base-analysis-a-comprehensive-step-by-step-approach-for-abg-and-bmp-interpretation/) _2025-12-10 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ This article explains acid-base analysis—specifically, how to interpret an Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) and Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP) to understand a patient’s acid-base status. The article may be of interest to medical students or clinicians interested in a step-by-step explanation of acid-base analysis, including situations where the pH appears normal. The article may also be \[ \] ## [HealthBench Does Not Evaluate Patient Safety](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2025/05/13/healthbench-does-not-evaluate-patient-safety/) _2025-05-13 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ HealthBench is a recently released benchmark to evaluate large language models in healthcare. This blog post summarizes what HealthBench is, and overviews its positive and negative aspects, including a patient safety gap. What is HealthBench? HealthBench is a new healthcare LLM benchmark released by OpenAI in May 2025. It includes 5,000 health conversations between a \[ \] ## [AI chatbots did not “defeat” doctors at diagnosing illness](https://glassboxmedicine.com/2024/11/20/ai-chatbots-did-not-defeat-doctors-at-diagnosing-illness/) _2024-11-20 · Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD · Glass Box Medicine_ A recent New York Times article titled AI Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness covers a study recently published in JAMA Network Open. The main point of the study was to determine whether access to an LLM could help doctors diagnose more effectively. The outcome? Physicians using an LLM did not perform any better than \[ \]