A Few Things I've Been Thinking About
Notes from a physician-builder in the middle of an AI and healthcare moment.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · June 20, 2026
Essays by Dr. Ashwani Dhar
Healthcare, AI, and the business of medicine — in his own words.
Ten essays published on Medium under the byline of Dr. Ashwani Dhar MD, DMI — physician-entrepreneur, CEO & Chairman of ThinkRoman Ventures, former CMIO at Cerner / Oracle Health. Every essay below lives on Medium and reads back to this profile.
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Healthcare Is Not Just Data — What Oracle Got Wrong
Four years after the $28 billion acquisition, the numbers are in — and they tell a story every tech company eyeing healthcare should read.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar, MD, DMIJune 12, 2026Read on Medium
When AI Doesn't Forget — It Gets Stuck
Human weakness in conversational AI — and what anchoring bias in medicine reveals about how large language models handle context.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · June 15, 2026
Burnout, Anxiety, or Depression? Most People Guess Wrong
The symptoms overlap more than you think — and guessing wrong delays getting better.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · June 12, 2026
Beyond the Data Container: Why We Built a Frictionless, Privacy-First Layer for Mental Health Data
What a clinician-led build taught us about trust, consent, and the future of mental health data.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · June 11, 2026
AI Will Not Replace Physicians. It May Replace the EHR as We Know It.
The doctor-facing technology that matters most isn't the AI — it's the interface it replaces.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · June 11, 2026
OpenAI Strikes Back: The Quiet War to Steal Google's Crown
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas doesn't want to compete with Google Search. It wants to erase the need for search altogether.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · October 22, 2025
Throw Out the Old America Dataset
Why our financial, healthcare, and even AI models keep failing — and how to rebuild them for the America that actually exists.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · September 16, 2025
The Banana That Ate OpenAI's Lunch
The picture worth a thousand futures.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · September 4, 2025
OpenAI's HealthBench — What It Really Means
Why it's got me both excited and terrified about the future of medical AI.
By Dr. Ashwani Dhar · September 1, 2025
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Dr. Ashwani Dhar publishes on Medium as @ashdhar — physician-entrepreneur, founder & CEO of ThinkRoman, with Kairos R&D, TrPharma, OpenAccess Navigator, and Plenty. MD · DMI · Harvard Chan · San Francisco Bay Area.