AI Dx - Your weekly diagnosis of healthcare AI and innovation

AI Dx - Your weekly diagnosis of innovation, AI, and evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based insights on healthcare innovation, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Written by Bhargav Patel, MD, MBA - physician-scientist, researcher, and leader at the intersection of clinical medicine and technology.

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The citation was real. The authors were invented.

Oct 4, 2026

Even when an AI names a real paper with a working link, the author list is often fabricated, which is exactly the part nobody verifies.

The first real-world test of a medical AI, and what broke

Sep 26, 2026

When a leading conversational AI met real patients and real workflows, the failures weren't in the model. They were in the humans around it.

Who controls the clinical decision?

Sep 19, 2026

A new federal bill would restrict who can own and run a medical practice. The most important line in it is about the EMR.

The signal was always in the ECG. We just couldn't see it.

Sep 13, 2026

An AI flagged heart failure and valve disease from a routine ECG in under two seconds. The real story isn't the speed.

If autonomous AI wins, the hard part isn't the medicine

Sep 5, 2026

Grant the claim that AI will out-practice doctors. The questions that decide what happens to patients are the ones no one's working on.