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Public theses on the shifts shaping consequential healthcare decisions.

These essays carry one argument at a time in public so leadership teams can read, cite, and circulate the thesis before deciding whether they want the full free report or a collaboration conversation.

Public theses

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Public thesis / Minute Zero

What Is Minute Zero in Healthcare?

A public thesis on minute zero: the first care decision now happens before the provider is involved, changing access, demand shaping, and governance.

  • The provider no longer owns the first meaningful interaction in care by default.
  • Minute zero is where urgency, cost, and next-step decisions are now made.
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Public thesis / Minute Zero

Why AI Is Capturing the First Five Minutes of Care

AI is absorbing behavior created by affordability pressure and access friction, making it one of the fastest-growing surfaces for minute-zero work.

  • People are using AI before trust is fully consolidated.
  • Minute-zero tasks are mainly language tasks, which makes AI especially effective in that window.
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Public thesis / Minute Zero

The Economics of Missing Minute Zero

When a provider is absent at minute zero, it inherits demand rather than shaping it. That appears as misrouting, leakage, higher cost-to-serve, and margin pressure.

  • The organization pays for demand it did not shape.
  • Minute zero is where access, margin, and risk converge.
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Public thesis / Minute Zero

How Provider Systems Win the First Five Minutes in Healthcare

Providers have the strongest right to win minute zero if they combine trust, records, escalation, identity, and accountability into one governed front end.

  • Speed alone does not create a durable right to win.
  • Providers can still differentiate if they connect AI to trust and clinical infrastructure.
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Public thesis / Minute Zero

The Operating Model for a Governed AI Front Door

A provider answer to minute zero is not a chatbot purchase. It is a governed navigation layer with identity, consent, model controls, escalation, and board reporting.

  • Buying a chatbot is not an operating model.
  • Identity becomes the control plane because AI collapses the distance between request, data, and action.
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Public thesis / Minute Zero

What CEOs and Boards Must Decide About Minute Zero

The next 36 months are a decision window for provider leadership teams: own minute zero, define the control point, classify use cases, and govern scale deliberately.

  • The next three years are a strategic window, not a waiting period.
  • Boards need staged decisions, staged evidence, and explicit pause thresholds.
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