Sina Bari
Healthcare AI authority

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The Working Physician's Personal AI Stack

A physician-executive’s take on the minimum viable AI stack that survives a real clinic week, and on the harder skill of knowing when not to use AI at all.

June 28, 2026 · 9 Min Read

Clinical AI Is a Governance Problem, Not a Chatbot Problem

A technically strong clinical AI model can still fail if no one defines ownership, workflow placement, escalation rules, and review cadence. In hospitals, the decisive question is not which model won the benchmark, but which team is accountable when the alert fires.

June 28, 2026 · 9 Min Read

When the Algorithm Becomes a Second Opinion, Who Owns the Chart?

A physician-executive lens on why hospital AI should be governed like a clinical workflow, not a product category. The real risk is not that AI is too smart, but that hospitals adopt it faster than they can measure, supervise, and correct it.

June 14, 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

About the Author

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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.

For speaking, collaboration, or media inquiries related to healthcare AI, use sinabari@gmail.com.

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