May 6, 2026
A Working Map of Foundation Models in Healthcare and Life Sciences
June’26 Update: After writing this post, I ended up making a live list of foundation models at pallavsharda.com/hcls-fm-map Over the last few months, I’ve been exploring where AI...
AI and Health
March 20, 2026
A couple of LLM-based patient tool ideas
I keep a list of LLM-driven startups in healthcare. Most of what I track falls into two buckets: Operations (scheduling, billing, prior auth) and Clinical (scribes, summarization, care...
AI and Health
June 3, 2024
Generative AI and Healthcare: An ongoing list of application areas
It’s easy to feel the immense transformational capacity of Generative AI as a solution. And healthcare has no shortage of problems to solve. The real insight is in...
AI and Health
January 15, 2024
Language Models and GPT’s evolution
As explained in this Stanford CS50 tech talk, Language Models (LMs) are basically a probability distribution over some vocabulary. For every word we give an LM, it can...
AI and Health
Earlier Writing (2008-2017): These are my old notes on health IT and the digital health industry before AI changed the conversation.