Prompt Engineering Patterns for Clinical Screen-Reading Agents
Well-designed prompts, not raw model power, determine whether clinical agents work reliably.
Priya Subramaniam
Senior Editor, Agent Architecture
Priya spent eight years as a software architect at a regional health system before pivoting to technical journalism, where she now focuses on the design and failure modes of autonomous clinical agents. Her writing draws on hands-on experience integrating decision-support pipelines with legacy EHR infrastructure.
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