CMS just built an office to govern your algorithms
Govern first, automate second. A federal office that can ask what your model does makes the governance file an operational asset rather than a compliance chore.
The sequencing argument, made against a specific development. When an external body can ask what a model does, who approved it and what would switch it off, the governance file stops being paperwork and starts being the thing that determines how long the answer takes.
Read the full issue. This one went out to the list on July 18, 2026. The complete text, with the figures and the sources, is here: read it in full.
One operational argument a week
The Operations Edge lands each Monday: a hook, one thing to use before lunch, and the full argument here in the archive. No vendor sponsorship, ever.
The instruments behind the writing
Every framework in the series is published as a working file: registers, protocols, audit rubrics and unit-economics models, sized to be used rather than admired.
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Author: Neel Chauhan, MD MBA, physician-executive and founder of the Healthcare AI Institute. Last reviewed against the standard on 2026-08-05.
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