The human part
is the point.
Clinically Intelligent is a clinician-led initiative exploring better ways to learn and work in healthcare.
We combine practical education, clinical insight and thoughtful design, starting with AI and exploring how new capabilities translate into meaningful change. Founded by Juwon Akinyande, an NHS occupational therapist in East London.
Education. Design. Change.
We’re starting with AI.
AI is creating new possibilities for healthcare, but access to technology isn’t the same as knowing how to use it well.
We’re interested in the human part: the skills, judgement, learning and working conditions that determine whether new capabilities become genuinely useful.
Education
Developing people. Practical learning built around real clinical tasks, from MDT preparation to patient information.
Design
Creating better ways to learn, understand and communicate, in things clinicians keep and come back to.
Change
Understanding whether new capability actually translates into better work, and what gets in the way.
Since April 2026: 15+ weekly issues, two free Field Guides and live teaching with NHS clinical teams.
Learning through experience
Would you send it?
A clinician's note, and an AI summary of it. Tap the words the AI added that aren't in the source.
Lantus 20 units normally. Reduce to 18 units on football days.
Where did “before football” come from? Nowhere.
The numbers were right. The meaning wasn’t.
Every figure survived. The instruction didn’t. “On football days” and “before football” are different advice, and a patient would act on the second. This is the habit CI teaches: check every AI draft for what was added, what was removed, whether the meaning shifted, and whether it now sounds more certain than the source.
This is how we think learning should feel: practical, active and built around judgement.
Composite example from a CI workshop. Not clinical advice. Never put patient identifiable information into an AI tool. If you are ever unsure ask your IG lead before you upload anything.
Not just ideas. Actual work.
CI Films, creative concept
Clerked. A clinical case study of an organisation, written the way clinicians write.
Unpublished concept film. Swipe through the frames.
Free to use, today.
- The AI Safety CheckField Guide, publishedA Field Guide for deciding what's safe to put into an AI tool before you put it there.
- The AI Prompting GuideField Guide, publishedA Field Guide to writing prompts that give you something you can actually use.
And one practical issue a week, written for clinicians who refuse to be left behind.
Subscribe freeHow we approach the work
Start with the work. Develop capability. Measure what changes.
- Understand the workIdentify real healthcare challenges and opportunities for improvement.
- Learn through experienceDesign engaging learning experiences that support exploration, practice and feedback.
- Protect professional judgementEvaluate technology and use it safely, critically and responsibly.
- Apply learningConnect new capabilities to appropriate workplace activities.
- Measure and improveAssess competence, examine what changes and refine the approach.
Learning is the start.
Change is the test.
Understand problems. Develop capability. Measure what changes.
We’re interested in what happens beyond learning: what gets applied, what changes in practice, what gets in the way and what can be improved. These are questions we’re setting out to investigate, not results we’re claiming.
Designing how healthcare learns.
CI Studios
DevelopingOur developing design practice for learning experiences, resources and healthcare communication.
CI Films
DevelopingOur developing approach to visual storytelling, making ideas, judgement and healthcare experiences easier to see and understand.
What gets
in the way?
Good solutions start with a better understanding of the problem. This is our developing way of hearing about recurring challenges in healthcare work, before jumping to technology as the answer.
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On a phone? Scan to share one in under a minute.Bring CI something like this.
“Our clinicians have access to AI, but don’t know how to use it safely or meaningfully.”
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“We know this workflow isn’t working, but we don’t want to jump straight to a technology solution.”
Discovery Developing
“We have an idea worth exploring and need clinical, design and technology thinking around it.”
Design, storytelling and partnerships Developing