The exact workflow I use in practice to turn a denial into an approved appeal in minutes.
I build AI tools for clinical practice, write about physician adoption of AI, and advise health AI founders on what actually works inside a clinic.
I've always been the techie doctor in every room I've walked into. Fourteen years as a practicing rheumatologist, and the entire time I've been building things on the side: apps, registries, podcasts, open-source tools. The doctors around me see a colleague. The engineers see a physician who speaks their language.
In March 2020, I co-founded the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance. Within four weeks, we had a live physician-reported registry collecting data across six continents. I led the technology build and the marketing that recruited thousands of contributing physicians. That project produced 65 peer-reviewed publications including in The Lancet Rheumatology and the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. We went from zero to a global dataset that changed treatment guidelines during a pandemic.
Today I use AI daily in clinical practice. I build my own tools for prior authorization appeals and clinical workflows. I've built a personal AI operating system from scratch. I train physicians for a major AI company. I write about the gap between what AI can do and what physicians are actually doing with it.
Previously: HealthPartners Rheumatology Department Chair. ACR Social Media Editor. Health tech consultant for EHR interoperability and clinical decision support startups.
The exact workflow I use in practice to turn a denial into an approved appeal in minutes.
What happens when AI agents can handle the entire prior auth process autonomously.
The core thesis: AI is moving faster than physicians are adopting it, and the gap is a problem.
Paste a prior authorization denial letter. Get a physician-ready appeal with clinical reasoning, guideline citations, and peer-reviewed evidence. This is the same workflow I use in my own practice.
I advise health AI founders on clinical workflow integration and physician adoption. I've been the physician in the room for EHR interoperability platforms, clinical decision support tools, and AI training programs. I know what makes doctors trust a product and what makes them delete it after one use. Not just a name on an advisory board.