Healthcare Coalition
AI in Healthcare
What's working, what isn't, and what to watch.
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The problem
The bigger the picture, the blurrier the patient.
Your doctor gets fifteen minutes with you. Your insurance company sees you as a claim. Public health sees you as a dot on a chart.
Every step back loses the person.
One person
A care team that never stops paying attention.
Devices like this one now send every reading straight to the care team, and AI watches the stream around the clock, flagging the moment something starts to drift.
−9.8 points
drop in blood pressure after one year of monitored care at home
UC San Diego Health, 2025
The exam room
Your doctor looks at you, not at a keyboard.
AI now listens to the visit and writes the medical note itself. The measurable result is more of something we thought was gone for good:
77%
of the visit spent in eye contact, up from 70%
Singapore General Hospital, 2026
−15%
time spent on paperwork per visit
same study, time-motion analysis
The lab
Seeing cancer years before symptoms.
That's a real mammogram being read with AI. In a Swedish trial of 105,000 women, AI-first reading found more cancers with half the radiologist workload. And at Mayo Clinic, AI now spots the earliest signs of pancreatic cancer on routine scans.
+29%
more breast cancers caught, with no rise in false alarms
MASAI trial, The Lancet
3 years
earlier detection of pancreatic cancer, before a tumor is visible
Mayo Clinic, 2026
Image: Google · NHS breast screening
The insurance company
AI does whatever you point it at.
Insurers pointed it at cost. ProPublica reported 300,000 claims denied in two months, and courts and state laws are now pushing back.
1.2 seconds
of doctor review per automated denial
ProPublica reporting, 2023
Watch: Medicare is piloting a supervised version through 2031, and Texas is one of the six pilot states.
The whole region
A region's health, seen in real time.
Public health used to learn about outbreaks weeks late, from paper reports. Now AI reads emergency-room visits as they happen and spots a cluster while it's still one zip code.
And it finally speaks medical Spanish, which matters here more than almost anywhere.
David Marek
AI consultant & software developer, DropDev
Lead organizer, Google Developer Group · El Paso region
Lead organizer, Google Developer Group · El Paso region
I build this, here in El Paso.
Through DropDev I help organizations across the region put AI to work, in healthcare and well beyond it. Our healthcare venture, HealthAtlas, has been recognized nationally and locally, and you'll still find me in the community, on both sides of the border, asking people what they actually need.
NSF National I-Corpsrepresenting UTEP
Best in Show · HIMSS 2026Emerge Pitch Competition · Payer Systems
First place · P21 VMS PitchTechnology track, Pioneers 21
First place · MCA Elevate 2025Medical Center of the Americas
One more thing
The future of healthcare innovation is being built in El Paso too.
Every study and source in this talk lives at the link, along with what we're building next.
healthtalk.dropdev.co
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