We Don’t Need More AI. We Need SKUs for Clinical Data.

HITshow with David Lareau, CEO, Medicomp Systems “AI can be a really trusted colleague for clinicians—but only if they trust it.”

David has spent nearly five decades listening to clinicians and building a better way. What he’s advocating isn’t just another AI tool. It’s a fundamental redesign of the clinical data infrastructure.

“We’ve built a clinical knowledge graph with 400,000 concepts defined by real clinicians, because billing codes like SNOMED, ICD, and RxNorm were never designed to work together.”

He compares today’s broken system to trying to pick products in an Amazon warehouse by voice and after-the-fact: “In Amazon’s world, they use SKUs. Healthcare needs the same kind of structured, actionable data model.” 💡 The message is clear: If we want to make AI work in healthcare, we have to build it with clinicians, for clinicians—and we need tools that support decisions in real time, not just documentation after the visit.