I read the AI firehose every week so you don't have to.
The AI Clinic is one email a week for clinicians, practice owners, researchers, and faculty. The handful of AI developments worth your attention, what they actually mean for your work, and the hype I'm ignoring. Written by a physical therapist figuring this out in the open.
Weekly. Written by Mark Kargela, PT, DPT.
AI scribes are everywhere. Here's what they miss.
Ambient scribes reach the bedside
Three vendors shipped point-of-care notes this week.
So what: Less typing. Still read every line before you sign.
A model versus real triage calls
A new trial put an LLM against live intake decisions.
So what: Promising. Not yours to trust alone yet.
Where your chatbot sends patient data
A plain look at what actually leaves the room.
So what: Check the BAA before you paste.
That's the week. No hype, just what's useful.
Mark Kargela, PT, DPT
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Inside every issue
No hype, no firehose. The few things a working clinician needs to know.
The AI stories that actually touched healthcare this week, in plain language.
What each one means for your patients, your classroom, your research, or your business. No hype.
The research worth reading, screened so you're not drowning in preprints.
Why I write it
I'm a physical therapist, not an engineer. A year ago the pace of this stuff made me feel behind, like everyone else got a manual I missed. So I started reading everything, the labs, the healthcare trades, the journals, and pulling out the few things a working clinician actually needs to know. The AI Clinic is that, once a week. No "this changes everything." Just what's real, what's useful, and what's noise. If you've felt behind too, you're in the right place.
Mark Kargela, PT, DPT
The archive
Past issues
AI oversight & trust
You're the detector.New
Epic's AI chart summaries, checked line by line
AI in practice operations
Write it down before you automate it.
A PT owner traded his software for written procedures
AI return on investment
Pick the number before you buy.
Big health systems now want proof that AI pays for itself
AI in patient care
AI is already in the treatment room.
Therapists are already using AI with patients
Shadow AI & policy
Your staff already found their own AI.
Your clinic probably already has shadow AI
AI liability & trust
Read the note before you sign it.
Ambient scribes can quietly write the wrong thing into your chart
AI risk & trust
Check the claim before you build on it.
A new review maps everything that can go wrong once AI touches a chart
Clinical AI in the record
Nobody reads the whole chart anymore.
The chart got too thick to read. So doctors are asking it questions.
AI liability & trust
The lawsuit isn't about the facts.
Someone is suing over a chatbot's bedside manner
AI oversight & regulation
You didn't get a vote.
The rules for your AI tools are being written without you
AI oversight & trust
Somebody still has to check the work.
Anthropic's own AI hacked three companies. On its own.
Health policy
The billing code doesn't exist yet.
CMS is finally trying to figure out how to pay for AI
Clinical AI credibility
The rematch had a funder.
OpenEvidence-funded study says it beats general AI
AI in your workflow
The upgrade already landed.
OpenAI's new models just moved into your clinic's software
Agentic AI
AI is learning to run the visit without you.
Autonomous AI takes on clinical tasks
Liability & trust
When the AI is wrong, you own it.
When the AI is wrong, the clinic owns it
Clinical AI
The generalists won.
General AI beat the specialist clinical tools
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