Hugo Acurio AI in pharmacovigilance in Latin America: what ARCSA, ANVISA and COFEPRIS expect The short answer None of the three regulators has written an AI rule for pharmacovigilance yet. What they specify is the case record, and Ecuador and Brazil have done it recently and in detail: E2B(R3... Oct 8, 2026
Hugo Acurio AI regulatory compliance for healthcare and pharma operations The short answer I build AI for regulated healthcare and pharma that runs in production and leaves a record an auditor can trace. My rule: the AI prepares and suggests, a human decides, and every step... Oct 8, 2026
Hugo Acurio What should a healthcare company hire for in a Fractional Chief AI Officer? The short answer Hire for AI that already runs in production inside a regulated P&L. A model-building résumé is the wrong filter. Only about 5% of organizations get generative AI into production with ... Oct 5, 2026
Hugo Acurio Slop Wars: the slop was already there Thinking The selective amnesia on LinkedIn dumbfounds me. AI slop sucks? Sure. But apparently in a galaxy far, far away (before ChatGPT) nobody ever wrote garbage — we all lived in a world full of tho... Thinking Sep 23, 2026
Hugo Acurio Bogotá · Seton Hall Law LATAM-HCCP 2026 Field note 📍 Seton Hall Law's LATAM Healthcare Compliance Certificate Program. Bogotá. I made an unpopular case: The reform wave hitting Latin America — ANVISA VigiMed, ARCSA's new standard, COFEPRIS'... Field notes Sep 21, 2026
Hugo Acurio How to Give an AI Agent Memory Without Breaking the Audit Trail Every team that builds an AI agent eventually hits the same wall. The agent is sharp inside a single conversation, then the conversation ends and it forgets everything. So someone says "let's give it ... Jul 31, 2026
Hugo Acurio The F1 Business Era I have spent fifteen years running operations in consumer health, telehealth, and pharma. The most useful number I ever watched was never in a monthly report. It was the signal that moved before the r... Jul 29, 2026
Hugo Acurio You can't afford a COO? The math just flipped The short answer A startup should bring in a COO, fractional or not, the moment execution gets cheap and judgment becomes the scarce resource, which now happens earlier than most founders expect. Gart... Jul 5, 2026
Hugo Acurio AI Isn't a Great Leveler. It's a Great Un-Masker. For most of my life, my writing read like a machine. Competent, structured, a little stiff — sentences assembled rather than spoken. I used to think that was a flaw. Recently I understood what it actu... Jul 5, 2026
Hugo Acurio We only have two settings for new technology. Both are wrong. This spring, two things were true about Uber in the same week. Roughly 70% of the code its engineers commit now originates with AI, and Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget — billions of doll... Jul 5, 2026
Hugo Acurio Every metric is a tributary. Only one is the river. Most operators were trained to balance a dashboard (a row of co-equal numbers, all of them now easier to move). But they were never co-equal. One of them was always the river the rest just feed. For m... Jul 5, 2026