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Why Nebraska Medicine Killed Its AI Pilot — and Who Paid for the Silence?

25 October 2026 · 40 min

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Show notes

Nebraska Medicine shut down an AI cancer registry pilot after 60 days — and actually said so publicly. That honesty is rarer than it should be, and the silence everywhere else is making every health system's next pilot more dangerous. Dr. Wellis and hospital CIO persona Megan Carter dissect what really went wrong and what leaders must do before the next pilot launches.


Dr. Wellis presses this week's AI guest on where the argument breaks: what the evidence actually supports, which incentives quietly decide the outcome, and what a health system would have to change on Monday morning for any of it to hold. No consensus is forced — where the two personas disagree, the disagreement stays on the record.

AI disclosure

Dr. Wellis and the guest on this episode are AI-generated personas. The topics are drawn from real developments in healthcare.

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