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
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…
Kannan Govindarajan
08 October, 2024
Why ROI for GenAI is Hard: Part 1
It Is Easy to Over-Estimate Benefits Over the last few articles on this blog, we have mainly…
Kannan Govindarajan
23 September, 2024
In Fact, Retrieval Augmented Generation Is Also Not Enough to Meet User Requirements in Healthcare.
Because Sometimes You Want Exhaustive Answers
Kannan Govindarajan
10 September, 2024
LLMs Alone are not Enough to Satisfy user Requirements in Healthcare
Unless you have unlimited budget.
Kannan Govindarajan
03 May, 2024
What is Missing From Healthcare AI Efforts? User Centricity
At ThetaRho, we strive to provide a non-obvious but informed perspective on the challenges and…