Vaishali Mittal

Perspectives

Learnings from my work.

Notes on how product decisions actually get made in healthcare: in clinical workflows, in regulated hardware, and in the space between disciplines.

01Clinical AI / 4 min readThe hardest part of clinical AI isn’t the modelWhy an accurate algorithm is only the beginning of a useful clinical product.Read the essay02Product decisions / 5 min readDesirability, feasibility, viability: deciding what to buildWhat a surgeon's chair and a clinical AI alert reveal about deciding what to build.Read the essay03Surgical robotics / 5 min readDecide early, learn early: building surgical robotsWhat building hardware teaches us about lead times, early learning and the cost of changing direction.Read the essay