future medicine

Nov 03 2025

The AI coding arms race

Bryan Vartabedian

The scribe industry sold hospital systems software that massages every patient visit into a high complexity encounter. And hospitals bought it thinking the insurers wouldn’t notice. Well, they noticed. Now payors and auditors are circling. The hawk-and-rabbit game of robo-coding and...

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May 30 2024

The Opportunity of Scarcity in Healthcare

Bryan Vartabedian

For most of history, medical diagnosis came through a series of chaotic steps. Patients experienced a string of studies, samples, and images coupled with a doctor’s judgment offering a best-guess answer. Or, in many cases, just a guess. Increasingly, diagnosis is being be reduced to simple...

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