At MedFlorida Medical Centers, patients move between English, Spanish and Portuguese in a single visit. Dr. Mazin Shikara argues that documentation built for one language is a patient safety problem, and that AI can help close it if physicians stay in charge of the chart. Consider a visit that plays out in some form every […]
Read More >The founder of MedFlorida Medical Centers says the case for artificial intelligence in primary care is capacity, not cost cutting. The evidence on claim denials and clinician burnout suggests he has a point. Two numbers frame the argument Dr. Mazin Shikara makes about artificial intelligence in primary care. The first is 5.9. That is how […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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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