Sina Bari
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Agentic AI in Clinical Medicine Needs a Zero Trust Mindset

Agentic AI in clinical medicine is moving fast enough to tempt hospitals into giving it broad autonomy before the governance, security, and clinical guardrails exist. The right question is not whether these systems can act, but which actions belong inside a clinician-supervised workflow and which ones should never leave the sandbox.

September 5, 2026 · 10 Min Read

Why hospital AI needs a clinical governance committee before it needs another demo

Hospitals do not fail at AI because the models are always bad. They fail when procurement outruns governance, clinicians cannot see the basis for a recommendation, and no one owns the workflow when the tool misfires.

September 4, 2026 · 8 Min Read

The AI Question Hospitals Keep Asking Too Late

Last Tuesday, a clinician showed me an AI demo that looked polished until we asked a simple question: what happens when the model is wrong on a crowded ward at 2 a.m.? Hospitals do not need more AI hype, they need governance that treats deployment like a clinical intervention.

September 1, 2026 · 9 Min Read
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Clinical workflow design

How AI fits into triage, documentation, routing, review, escalation, and other high-friction clinical workflows.

Governance, safety, and evaluation

Practical guidance on model validation, monitoring, human oversight, risk controls, and safer adoption of medical AI.

Imaging, diagnostics, and adoption

Commentary on medical imaging AI, diagnostic support, and the organizational conditions needed for successful health-system rollout.

Positioning

Credible commentary for a fast-moving field

The tone stays clear, restrained, and evidence-aware. Claims should be specific, useful, and grounded in how care is actually delivered.

The goal is to help readers understand what works, what fails, and what responsible healthcare AI adoption looks like in practice.

Dr. Sina Bari, MD

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Dr. Sina Bari, MD is a Stanford-trained surgeon and the VP of Healthcare & Life Sciences AI at iMerit. He writes here on the clinical-workflow and governance side of healthcare AI, separate from the long-form essays at drsinabari.com and the surgical-practice writing at sinabariplasticsurgery.com.

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