Seeing Is Believing: Why Visual RAG Might Be the Missing Layer in Clinical AI
Guidelines are not novels. That sounds obvious until we remember how most retrieval-augmented generation systems treat them. A clinical guideline becomes text. The text becomes chunks. The chunks become embeddings. The embeddings become “context.” Somewhere in that mechanical conversion, a dosing table, a referral pathway, or a threshold hidden inside a flowchart quietly loses its shape. Then everyone acts surprised when the answer is fluent but clinically thin. Very mysterious. ...