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Summer 2026 · Free · Virtual
What the Vibe
Saturday, May 30, 2026 · 12p–2p ET
Vibe coding changed everything. The barrier to building just disappeared. So what's the vibe? Is clinicians.dev dead? Does knowing how to code still matter when anyone can build? Four clinician-builders. Twelve minutes each. Show us what you made — vibe-coded, hand-coded, or somewhere in between.
Tentative speakers
First, Do No Harm — Especially With Your MVP: A CMIO's Advice in the Clinician-Builder Era
Trajectories, Not Targets: Catching Reward-Hacked Diagnostic Reasoning One ICD Branch at a Time
Silent Denials, Loud Insights: Visibility into the Payors Who Won't Show Their Work
From Bedside to Buyout: An EP Fellow Path to Acquisition
- 4 talks (12 min each)
- 1:1 breakouts after each
- Group discussion
- Open community talk: "What the Vibe?"
01 · Learn
AI & agentic engineering
The foundational reads, the tools clinicians-who-code are actually using, and the loop that ships.
Context engineering — the foundation
Learn CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md
🔁 The Ralph Wiggum Pattern — the loop that ships. Tight spec → agent implements → you verify → adjust spec → repeat. Just keep going.
Tools of the trade
| Tool | Best for | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Complex multi-file work, architecture | Terminal-native, large context. The power tool. Good for non-code tasks too. |
| Cursor | Daily coding with autocomplete + inline edits | AI IDE, huge user base. |
| Windsurf | Budget entry, Cascade collaboration | AI-native editor. |
| Copilot / Codex CLI | Repo-native GitHub workflows | Tight GitHub integration. |
Skills marketplaces
Healthcare MCPs
Agentic frameworks & orchestration
- CrewAI— multi-agent orchestration, clinical workflow pipelines
- LangGraph— graph-based agent workflows with state
- AutoGen— Microsoft's multi-agent conversation framework
- MS Agent Framework 1.0— production .NET + Python
- DSPy— programmatic LLM pipelines, good for clinical NLP
02 · Communities
Communities, courses, substacks
Where clinician innovators and clinician builders are hanging out.
03 · Build stack
EHRs, FHIR, fake patients
The pipes you'll need when you're actually building.
EHRs & FHIR
- oystehr.com
- ottehr.com
- medplum FHIR basics
- open.epic.com
- Oracle Health
- Canvas Medical
- Elion: headless EHRs
- Elion: SMART EHR UI map
🔑 SMART-on-FHIR / OAuth flow — fhir.epic.com/Documentation?docId=oauth2
Generate fake patients
04 · Datasets
Clinical datasets worth knowing
From CXRs to genomes to ICU waveforms. Filter by name, modality, or license.
| Name | Relevance | License |
|---|---|---|
| ReXGradient-160K | 160k multi-site CXR + reports — vision-language radiology sandbox. | Harvard DUA, non-commercial |
| CheXpert Plus | Large paired CXR–report set; benchmarked in many papers. | Stanford DUA, free research |
| Endoscapes 2023 | Open laparoscopic chole frames — segmentation / CVS detection. | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| Surg-3M | 3M surgical frames powering "SurgFM" foundation model. | TBA, expect research-only |
| AFRICAI Repository | Imaging sets from African centres — fairness & domain shift. | Mixed open licenses |
| OpenOximetry | Waveforms + skin-tone data for pulse-ox bias work. | PhysioNet credentialed |
| DeepLesion | 32k CT slices with bounding-box lesions; detection / tracking. | NIH DUA, research-only |
| BioASQ Synergy 2024 | Biomedical Q-A pairs — LLM eval set. | CC BY 2.5 |
| CliniFact | Clinical-trial fact-checking corpus — fine-tune retrieval / RAG. | MIT |
| Hallucination Annotations | Doctor- & LLM-written discharge summaries with token-level labels. | PhysioNet credentialed |
| Clinical-Trial Eligibility QA | QA pairs linking MIMIC-IV to apixaban RCT criteria. | PhysioNet credentialed |
| PIFIR | Wearable PPG/ECG for arrhythmia-free interval prediction. | PhysioNet restricted |
| GREGoR R02 | Rare-disease genomic + phenotypic harmonised data. | dbGaP controlled |
| Synthetic Rare-Disease EHRs | Benchmark synthetic EHRs for low-prevalence conditions. | CC BY |
| Korea4K | 4k Korean genomes — ancestry diversity for variant calling. | EGA controlled |
| OpenNeuro | 20k+ public neuro-imaging sessions; BIDS-ready. | CC0 / CC BY-SA |
| Bridge2AI-Voice | Multimodal speech (voice, vitals) for health AI. | PhysioNet restricted |
| PMDB Pain Monitoring | Wearable IMU + self-report pain diary. | CC BY 4.0 |
| DREAMT Wearable Sleep | Apple Watch PSG pairs for sleep-staging models. | PhysioNet restricted |
| MC-MED | Multi-condition medical dialogue (GPT / human). | PhysioNet credentialed |
| Wearable Stress Dataset | Smartwatch vitals + stress labels — mental health ML. | PhysioNet restricted |
| MIMIC-IV v3.1 | Flagship 380k-patient de-id EHR; ED + ICU tables. | PhysioNet credentialed + CITI |
| MIETIC | Italian clinical-notes corpus with entity spans. | PhysioNet credentialed |
| ODD (Opioid Behavior) | Annotated notes for opioid-related behaviour NLP. | PhysioNet credentialed |
| UK Biobank | 500k UK adult cohort — EHR, surveys, genetics. | Controlled access |
| All of Us (NIH) | 1M-goal US cohort — EHR, surveys, genomics, wearables. | Registered + Controlled tiers |
| TCGA | ~11k patients across 33 cancer types — multi-omics + clinical. | Partially open |
| AmsterdamUMCdb | First open European ICU DB — 23k admissions. | DUA required |
| ADNI | Longitudinal Alzheimer's — serial MRI/PET, clinical, biomarkers. | Free non-commercial |
| ABCD Study | 10k youths — neuroimaging, cognitive, mental health, genetic. | NIMH controlled access |
| NHANES (CDC) | US national survey — health, nutrition, lab data. | Public domain |
| CheXpert (original) | 224k chest X-rays, 65k patients — labeled findings. | Free non-commercial |
| EchoNet-Dynamic | 10k+ cardiac ultrasound videos with EF + ventricle volumes. | Non-commercial |
| Synthea | Realistic synthetic patient records — full EHR. | MIT |
| 1000 Genomes | WGS from ~2,500 diverse individuals — human variation reference. | Open access |
| DementiaBank (Pitt) | Speech recordings + transcripts from Alzheimer's patients + controls. | Consortium access |
| VitalDB | 6,300+ surgeries with continuous high-freq vital sign waveforms. | Open, registration + DUA |
| Medical Segmentation Decathlon | 10 open datasets for 3D medical image segmentation. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| PANDA | 10k+ prostate biopsy WSIs with Gleason grades. | CC BY 4.0 |
05 · Conferences
AI & health conferences
Borrowed from Raihan Faroqui's healthcare AI resource guide. Filter to find your tribe.
- Stanford AI Health Week
- Stanford AIMI Symposium
- Stanford HAI Events
- Stanford THINK
- Stanford RAISE Health
- Harvard SAIL
- Mayo Clinic AI Summit
- Cornell HealthNext AI
- JHU Responsible AI for Health
- Penn Medicine GenAI
- Northwestern AI Forum
- UCLA Computational Medicine & AI
- UC Berkeley Comp. Precision Health
- MIT AI & Health Reg. Policy
- Duke AI & Medicine
- UTSW AI Symposium
- IU AI in Healthcare
- Rice AI in Health
- Penn State AI & Human Factors
- MLHC
- NeurIPS
- HIMSS AI in Healthcare
- AMIA Annual Symposium
- AIME
- AIMed
- IEEE ICHI
- JPM
- HLTH
- ViVE
- Rock Health Summit
- HITLAB Innovators
- Behavioral HealthTech
- NextMed Health
- SoMeDocs AI
- LSI Summit
- Bio-IT World
- MedTech World
- AI for Pharma & Healthcare
- Digi-Tech Pharma & AI
- MN Healthcare & Life Sci AI
- Life Sciences AI Summit
- AI Agent Conference
06 · Jobs
Job boards that don't suck (as much)
What they are. Not endorsements — just the lay of the land.
- jobs.heyhealthtech.com
- Rock Health Capital
- MDisrupt
- PharmDs in IT
- AMIA
- General Catalyst— surprisingly good for startups
- Matchday Health
- Wellfound
- Look for Zebras
- Fractional Jobs
- HealthTech Nerds Jobs
07 · Startup
So you want to build a startup
But don't know anything about tech/stack, marketing/sales, finances, management.
08 · Life
Life hacking / survival
Because clinician-builders need to not burn out.
09 · Experiments
LLM matrix tests (alpha)
Testing out LLMs with fake patient scenarios generated by GPTs.
10 · Archive
Past events
Where we've been.
Fall 2025 Conference
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00p | TBD | Welcome |
| 1:10–1:22p | Josh Mandel, MD | Conversational Interoperability for Prior Auth and Beyond — MCP, A2A, and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Making Data Accessible |
| 1:35–1:47p | Jung Hoon Son, MD | Data CPR: How LLMs Revive Buried Clinical Insights |
| 2:00–2:12p | Jason Theobald, MD | Contain Multitudes: A Docker Intro |
| 2:25–2:37p | Calvin Johnston, MD | Software Design and Family Medicine: Overlapping skill sets |
| 2:50p | TBD | Wrap-up |
Summer 2025 Conference
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00p | Kevin Maloy, MD | Welcome |
| 1:10–1:22p | Vishnu Ravi, MD | Digital Health that Ships: An Open Framework You Can Use Today |
| 1:35–1:47p | Alex Dummet, MD | Topic TBD |
| 2:00–2:12p | Pawan Jindal, MD | Startup Survival 101: A Clinician's Guide |
| 2:25–2:37p | Omar Usman, MD | Change Data Capture (CDC): A Defiant Approach |
| 2:50p | Kevin Maloy, MD | Wrap-up |
Fall 2024 Conference (Nov 9, 2024)
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00p | Kevin Maloy, MD | Welcome |
| 1:10–1:22p | Paulius Mui, MD | From 0 to 1: Becoming a Clinician Who Codes |
| 1:30–1:42p | Brian Fung, PharmD | Path of the Clinician Engineer |
| 1:50–2:02p | Joe Izzo, MD | The Coding CMIO — it's okay to get your hands dirty |
| 2:10–2:22p | Karambir Khangoora, MD | Learning to Code as a Clinician: Building Medagogy |
| 2:30–2:42p | Joey LeGrand, PharmD | One Brain Can Be Better Than Two |
| 2:50p | Kevin Maloy, MD | Wrap-up |
Podchat — Should Hospitals Mandate GenAI Training? (Aug 29, 2024)
Listen to a short podcast, then talk about whether it's right or wrong. Original from Bill Russell at This Week Health. → Meetup event