Dr. Mazin Shikara Gave His Doctors an AI Scribe. Here Is What Actually Changed, and What Didn’t.

The founder of MedFlorida Medical Centers ran the experiment. The results are more complicated than the vendors would have you believe. TECHNOLOGY  ·  DR. MAZIN SHIKARA  ·  MEDFLORIDA MEDICAL CENTERS The pitch for AI-powered clinical documentation is seductive in its simplicity. Doctors spend too many hours on electronic health records. An ambient scribe listens during […]

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The AI Call Center Surprise at the 2026 eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit

Just came back from the 2026 eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit. While the overall event and the company announcements were as solid as expected, one particular technology absolutely blew me away and delivered on a promise I had been skeptical about – their healow Genie AI solution for call centers. eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit Highlights The AI Contact […]

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Why America Will Run Out of Primary Care Doctors, and Why Pipeline Is the Wrong Fix

The shortage projections are real. But the physicians already in practice are leaving faster than the system is replacing them, and no medical school expansion changes that math. ANALYSIS  ·  DR. MAZIN SHIKARA  ·  MEDFLORIDA MEDICAL CENTERS The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of up to 55,000 primary care physicians by the […]

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Reinventing Primary Care in the 2020s: Lessons from MedFlorida’s Patient-Centered Model

As American healthcare strains under chronic disease, access failures, and physician burnout, a Florida-based primary care network offers a glimpse of what frontline medicine may quietly be becoming, and what it still cannot fix. FEATURE  ·  DR. MAZIN SHIKARA  ·  MEDFLORIDA MEDICAL CENTERS On a weekday morning in South Florida, the waiting room at a […]

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The ER Is Not a Primary Care Backup Plan. We Built One Anyway, and the System Let Us.

America’s emergency departments are absorbing millions of visits that belong in primary care offices. MedFlorida’s founder explains how access failure became a structural policy choice. POLICY  ·  DR. MAZIN SHIKARA  ·  MEDFLORIDA MEDICAL CENTERS Consider a patient with hypertension who wakes up one morning with a headache and a blood pressure reading of 168 over […]

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