The/Clarity/Protocol
Honest conversations, real perspectives, and zero hype
about how AI and healthcare are reshaping each other.
- Our Perspective
Our Perspective
Ramani Narayan
02 July, 2026
Data Liquidity Is Not a Feature. It’s the Precondition for Everything Else.
Most healthcare data platforms solve for completeness. That’s the right first problem. But there’s…
Ramani Narayan
24 June, 2026
Building Healthcare AI You Can Trust
Why the Harness — Not the Model — Turns “it might work” into “you can count on it”
Ramani Narayan
17 June, 2026
AI Agents Are Coming to Every Corner of Your Practice. Most of Them Are Going to Disappoint You.
The front office, the exam room, the billing department — agents are being built for all three.…
Ramani Narayan
10 June, 2026
The AI Found the Signal. Now It Has to Do Something With It.
Retrieval gives the AI your patient’s chart. Investigation surfaces what matters. Synthesis turns…
Ramani Narayan
03 June, 2026
Clinical AI that knows everything about medicine and nothing about your patient isn’t clinical AI. It's search. Here’s what changes when that gap closes.
Most clinical AI tools know everything about medicine and nothing about your patient. A landmark…
Ramani Narayan
27 May, 2026
Smart Isn’t the Same as Useful.
What the AI Vendors Aren’t Telling You About Why Their Demos Look Better Than Their Products.
Ramani Narayan
20 May, 2026
Find It. Do It. Write It.
Forget the Hype. These Are the Three Things AI Can Actually Do in Healthcare Right Now.
Kannan Govindarajan
13 May, 2026
The Invisible Infrastructure: Why Ontologies Determine Whether Your Healthcare AI Actually Works
FHIR gives you the shape of healthcare data. Ontologies give it meaning. Without both, your AI is…
Kannan Govindarajan
06 May, 2026
Built for Nobody
Why the most sophisticated healthcare AI means nothing if real people can’t use it — and whose…
Kannan Govindarajan
29 April, 2026
We Digitized Healthcare. We Just Didn’t Make It Any Better.
How the technology that was supposed to fix American healthcare became part of the problem
Kannan Govindarajan
21 April, 2026
Why America Spends 50% More on Healthcare—And Gets Worse Results.
The uncomfortable truth about where our healthcare dollars actually go
Kannan Govindarajan
14 April, 2026
We’re done with the noise. Here’s what we’re building instead.
Our Perspective — Series Launch
Kannan Govindarajan
24 March, 2026
Why ROI for GenAI is hard: Part 2
It is easy to under-estimate effort and cost In the last blog, we focused our attention on why it…