Philly's AI Pharmacist

The "Access-Competency" Paradox in Healthcare AI (and how I'm trying to solve it)

It's a circular dilemma: Healthcare professionals are denied access to the tools required to build AI literacy because they're not competent. They can't…

Jan 18 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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November 2025

Corrupting the Mental Map: AI poses a critical risk to how healthcare students learn.

To an experienced clinician, AI's hallucinations are a nuisance. To an uninformed student, they are the truth.

Nov 19, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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September 2025

AI is not Healthcare’s Magic Bullet

A critically ill ICU patient deteriorates while the hospital’s AI model stays silent. Later, researchers find it missed two-thirds of patient declines.

Sep 28, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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August 2025

When PHI Meets AI: HIPAA Risks of Pasting Patient Data Into ChatGPT and Other Non-Compliant LLMs

Clinicians are entering patient information into ChatGPT to create therapy plans. But pasting protected health information into non-HIPAA AI models…

Aug 18, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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Ambient AI Medical Scribes: How AI Hallucinations in Clinical Documentation Can Harm Patients

AI medical scribes promise to cut down on charting time. But when they invent medical "facts," the health record becomes a source of harm. Here's how to…

Aug 16, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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AI Won't Fix Healthcare by Itself. It Amplifies the Incentives We Give It.

If we reward cost-cutting, it will cut care. If we under-staff, it will mask the gap. And even with good intentions, it can still mislead.

Aug 10, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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AI Use Policy

Information on how I use artificial intelligence (AI) in my writing.

Aug 3, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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Privacy & Analytics

Information about what information my newsletter tracks, why I collect it, what I’ll use it for, and things you can do.

Aug 2, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

July 2025

How a Europe trip changed my healthcare AI governance design perspective

Introducing the “Three Es” Philosophy: Ethical, Easy, Enforced

Jul 19, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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June 2025

AI in healthcare is no longer optional—but neither is patient safety.

We urgently need guardrails to protect against bias and data drift.

Jun 25, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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Beginning my AI healthcare governance journey

Who I am and what I'm going to do here

Jun 23, 2025 • Ryan Sears, PharmD

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