Jan Beger
@janbeger.bsky.social
Global Head of AI Advocacy @ GE HealthCare.
I post daily scientific paper summaries on www.linkedin.com/in/janbeger. See you there!
#AI #DigitalHealth
I post daily scientific paper summaries on www.linkedin.com/in/janbeger. See you there!
#AI #DigitalHealth
If I can explain it to AI, I understand it.
If not, I keep going.
Confusion isn’t failure.
It’s incomplete thinking.
If not, I keep going.
Confusion isn’t failure.
It’s incomplete thinking.
January 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM
If I can explain it to AI, I understand it.
If not, I keep going.
Confusion isn’t failure.
It’s incomplete thinking.
If not, I keep going.
Confusion isn’t failure.
It’s incomplete thinking.
This is a love story. A drama. A science fiction novel that sometimes feels like fantasy. Or at least, that’s how it feels when you’ve spent most of your professional life where artificial intelligence meets healthcare ... janbeger.substack.com/p/healthcare...
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
This is a love story. A drama. A science fiction novel that sometimes feels like fantasy. Or at least, that’s how it feels when you’ve spent most of your professional life where artificial intelligence meets healthcare ... janbeger.substack.com/p/healthcare...
Stop asking whether AI can beat a radiologist on hard cases. Ask whether it can stop a radiologist from missing an obvious, catastrophic finding on a terrible night.
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Stop asking whether AI can beat a radiologist on hard cases. Ask whether it can stop a radiologist from missing an obvious, catastrophic finding on a terrible night.
Biggest lesson AI taught me wasn’t about tech. It was about communication.
Every bad prompt is a mirror. It shows you exactly where your thinking is fuzzy.
AI doesn’t just make you smarter. It shows you where you’re not. 🤓
Every bad prompt is a mirror. It shows you exactly where your thinking is fuzzy.
AI doesn’t just make you smarter. It shows you where you’re not. 🤓
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Biggest lesson AI taught me wasn’t about tech. It was about communication.
Every bad prompt is a mirror. It shows you exactly where your thinking is fuzzy.
AI doesn’t just make you smarter. It shows you where you’re not. 🤓
Every bad prompt is a mirror. It shows you exactly where your thinking is fuzzy.
AI doesn’t just make you smarter. It shows you where you’re not. 🤓
Chaos. German style. 😉
January 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Chaos. German style. 😉
An AI habit more people should use: force disagreement. When a decision matters, I don’t ask one AI. I set up a few. The yes voice. The no voice. The numbers brain. The context brain. One AI is good at echoing your thinking. A small group that’s built to push back is how you get better answers.
January 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
An AI habit more people should use: force disagreement. When a decision matters, I don’t ask one AI. I set up a few. The yes voice. The no voice. The numbers brain. The context brain. One AI is good at echoing your thinking. A small group that’s built to push back is how you get better answers.
The hardest part of AI transformation is not choosing the right tools. It is redesigning governance systems built for a slower, more static healthcare era.
January 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The hardest part of AI transformation is not choosing the right tools. It is redesigning governance systems built for a slower, more static healthcare era.
I don’t use AI to get answers. I use it to argue with my ideas. I’ll toss out something half-baked and say, poke holes in this. What’s weak here? I’m not trying to win the argument. I’m trying to see what survives.
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I don’t use AI to get answers. I use it to argue with my ideas. I’ll toss out something half-baked and say, poke holes in this. What’s weak here? I’m not trying to win the argument. I’m trying to see what survives.
When AI enters healthcare, nothing stays where it was. How work flows, how data matters, and how responsibility is carried all shift. Delays are not inefficiency. They are renegotiation.
January 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
When AI enters healthcare, nothing stays where it was. How work flows, how data matters, and how responsibility is carried all shift. Delays are not inefficiency. They are renegotiation.
At this stage, healthcare AI involves unavoidable tradeoffs.
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
Which is worse, an alert that shouldn’t have fired, or a case the system never flagged?
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
Which is worse, an alert that shouldn’t have fired, or a case the system never flagged?
December 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
At this stage, healthcare AI involves unavoidable tradeoffs.
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
Which is worse, an alert that shouldn’t have fired, or a case the system never flagged?
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
Which is worse, an alert that shouldn’t have fired, or a case the system never flagged?
AI won’t decide our future.
Our habits around it will.
Who experiments.
Who stays curious.
Who waits.
Most outcomes won’t come from a single breakthrough.
They’ll come from daily use, or daily avoidance.
Our habits around it will.
Who experiments.
Who stays curious.
Who waits.
Most outcomes won’t come from a single breakthrough.
They’ll come from daily use, or daily avoidance.
December 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
AI won’t decide our future.
Our habits around it will.
Who experiments.
Who stays curious.
Who waits.
Most outcomes won’t come from a single breakthrough.
They’ll come from daily use, or daily avoidance.
Our habits around it will.
Who experiments.
Who stays curious.
Who waits.
Most outcomes won’t come from a single breakthrough.
They’ll come from daily use, or daily avoidance.
In medicine, keeping a human in the loop is vital, but where does that loop begin and end? As AI becomes a 2nd opinion, mastering it may be part of competent care. The future standard: empathy from humans, data from machines. Ignoring AI? That might become negligence.
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In medicine, keeping a human in the loop is vital, but where does that loop begin and end? As AI becomes a 2nd opinion, mastering it may be part of competent care. The future standard: empathy from humans, data from machines. Ignoring AI? That might become negligence.
You can’t master a new paradigm while staring at a deadline. If you want your team to actually leverage AI, give them the breathing room to fail with it first.
What would happen if you gave your team one hour this week to explore AI with no deliverables attached?
What would happen if you gave your team one hour this week to explore AI with no deliverables attached?
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You can’t master a new paradigm while staring at a deadline. If you want your team to actually leverage AI, give them the breathing room to fail with it first.
What would happen if you gave your team one hour this week to explore AI with no deliverables attached?
What would happen if you gave your team one hour this week to explore AI with no deliverables attached?
AI systems can now flag people as “high risk” for diseases long before they feel any symptoms. How does that shift who we treat as “sick” and what does that do to someone’s identity, stigma, and life choices before they’re actually ill?
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
AI systems can now flag people as “high risk” for diseases long before they feel any symptoms. How does that shift who we treat as “sick” and what does that do to someone’s identity, stigma, and life choices before they’re actually ill?
This study exposes the 'autopilot trap,' but also the way out. While passive reliance degrades skill, active collaboration sharpens it. Doctors remain in the driver’s seat by treating AI as a coach rather than a crutch. The future isn't about being tethered by tech it’s about being amplified by it.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This study exposes the 'autopilot trap,' but also the way out. While passive reliance degrades skill, active collaboration sharpens it. Doctors remain in the driver’s seat by treating AI as a coach rather than a crutch. The future isn't about being tethered by tech it’s about being amplified by it.
We must design AI that artificially re-introduces friction for learners, or we will inherit a generation of doctors who are merely liability sponges for algorithms.
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
We must design AI that artificially re-introduces friction for learners, or we will inherit a generation of doctors who are merely liability sponges for algorithms.
If AI cheapens specialized medical knowledge (doctor's value), but elevates non-automatable human skills (nurse's value)... Will nurses soon earn more than doctors?
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
If AI cheapens specialized medical knowledge (doctor's value), but elevates non-automatable human skills (nurse's value)... Will nurses soon earn more than doctors?
This older paper shows that matching human accuracy is not enough for AI in healthcare. AI systems face higher trust expectations, and their mistakes often trigger more concern than human errors. This is due to AI's lack of transparency, adaptability, and social presence.
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This older paper shows that matching human accuracy is not enough for AI in healthcare. AI systems face higher trust expectations, and their mistakes often trigger more concern than human errors. This is due to AI's lack of transparency, adaptability, and social presence.
AI-assisted tasks completed using Claude show an estimated 80% reduction in task time, which could potentially double US labor productivity growth over the next decade if widely adopted.
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
AI-assisted tasks completed using Claude show an estimated 80% reduction in task time, which could potentially double US labor productivity growth over the next decade if widely adopted.
My new article provides a field report on AI's transition, confirming 2025 as the year progress accelerated from the lab towards the ward, now caught "Between Beta and Breakthrough."
janbeger.substack.com/p/healthcare...
janbeger.substack.com/p/healthcare...
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My new article provides a field report on AI's transition, confirming 2025 as the year progress accelerated from the lab towards the ward, now caught "Between Beta and Breakthrough."
janbeger.substack.com/p/healthcare...
janbeger.substack.com/p/healthcare...
If you're using Al to save time, that's average.
Use it to expand your ideas? Now you're dangerous.
Use it to expand your ideas? Now you're dangerous.
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
If you're using Al to save time, that's average.
Use it to expand your ideas? Now you're dangerous.
Use it to expand your ideas? Now you're dangerous.
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM