Sina Bari
Healthcare AI authority

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When Health AI Misses the Quiet Failure

The strongest warning from recent health AI benchmarking is not that models hallucinate, but that they omit the one recommendation that would have changed management. NOHARM shows why omission-aware evaluation, physician-in-the-loop review, and workflow design matter more than leaderboard scores.

August 4, 2026 · 10 Min Read

What the Harvard Stanford Clinical AI Study Gets Right About Deployment

My reading of the Harvard Stanford State of Clinical AI study is that clinical AI has moved past demo theater and into a harder question: who is accountable when a model meets real workflow, real patients, and real operational constraints? I think the study matters most as a governance document, not a scoreboard.

July 30, 2026 · 9 Min Read

Health Singularity, Medical School, and Why I’d Still Send My Kids

I used to think the safest bet for a bright kid was to hedge away from medicine if AI kept accelerating. Now I think the opposite is closer to true, because medicine trains durable reasoning, judgment, endurance, and the discipline to work with uncertainty, while the next generation of doctors will also need to be competent AI supervisors.

July 27, 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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