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The real reason most healthcare AI never reaches patients

Dr. Vivek Singh talks with Artem Trotsyuk, a Stanford-trained engineer who built a wireless, AI-powered smart bandage that could monitor wounds and trigger healing without human intervention. The work was published in Nature Biotechnology and covered by the NIH. Then Trotsyuk tried to move it from the lab to an actual patient, and he learned that deployment is a completely different problem than the one he had just solved. That experience redirected his career: instead of building the next tool, he started studying why the last one never made it into practice. He now works with a governance group at Stanford Health Care that evaluates AI tools before they move from pilot to enterprise use. Here are three takeaways from the conversation.