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Essays, a podcast, and the day to day, on AI in primary care, digital health equity, and what the technology looks like from inside a community clinic.
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On AI in primary care, health equity, and what the technology looks like from inside a community clinic. New posts show up here automatically as I publish them.
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My podcast on medicine, technology, and heart, published as part of the MedTech & Heart newsletter. The first episode is live, with new episodes monthly. It opens on the hidden environmental cost of AI, the water behind a single prompt.
The digital divide
is a care divide
HIT Like a Girl · November 2025
On HIT Like a Girl with Joy Rios, I joined my Alma First co-founder, Dr. Jhaimy Fernandez, to talk about Latino health equity, the digital access barriers, the systemic obstacles, and how mentorship and community-led solutions build a more culturally competent healthcare system.
More guest
appearances
It's not capability, it's design: digital health equity
On designing digital health for the people most often left out of it, recorded around HLTH.
Listen →FQHC innovation, agentic AI, and health law
A conversation on building AI for safety-net clinics and keeping a clinician in the loop. Recorded, releasing in 2026.
Releasing soonBylines and
media features
The crisis of physician burnout and the promise of technology
On why the tools meant to help clinicians have to be built with the people who use them.
Read the piece → SMLMA News Briefs · 2024The critical role of digital health navigators in achieving health equity
How trained navigators connect Spanish-speaking patients to portals and video visits.
Read the piece →Practical, printable
tools for clinics and patients
Free to download and share, unchanged and with credit.
The Pre-Flight Checklist for AI Tools
What to confirm in writing before any AI tool touches a visit, for clinics that do not have a compliance department.
Open the checklist → ScriptThe Bilingual AI Consent Script
The exact words in English and Spanish, the teach-back line, and a printable waiting-room notice.
Open the script → TemplateThe One-Page AI Governance Log
One page, kept current. The tool, the owner, the answers, and a short log of what failed and what changed.
Open the log → FrameworkThe Hardest Day Test
If a tool needs you at your best to be safe, it is not safe. A quick clinical safety test for any AI tool.
Open the framework → Patient handoutYour Clinic Is Using AI
A plain-language handout that explains to patients how AI shows up in their care and what their choices are.
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Releasing soonNotes from
the front lines
Occasional writing on digital health, AI, and equity in primary care. No noise.