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Kingsley Madikaegbu is the founder of HealID, a startup building agentic AI on top of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for one of the most heavily regulated environments there is: healthcare.Recorded at MCP Dev Summit North America in New York, Kingsley sits down with Alex Salkever of the Agentic AI Foundation to break down how you give patients, doctors, caregivers, and family members each their own agent over the same medical record β without breaching HIPAA, leaking PHI, or letting an agent quietly go off the rails. In this conversation:ποΈ The four-layer architecture β Dumb data at the bottom, then access permissions, then MCP, then reasoning agents on top. Why logic never touches the data layer.π MCP vs REST β Why enforcing per-role compliance in a REST API meant encoding permissions everywhere, and how MCP collapses that mess.πͺͺ HIPAA, auditability & traceability β Proving a specific person (not a snooping agent) accessed a record, with a full audit trail that regulators actually accept.ποΈ The nightclub-bouncer analogy β How MCP reorganizes the entire "club" per guest instead of just checking a VIP list.β Wearables & real-world data β Turning an Apple Watch arrhythmia signal into a triaged, severity-scored workflow with doctors in the loop.π§ Deterministic vs model-driven β Why anything clinical or regulatory stays binary, and the agent-as-coach (not decision-maker) pattern for patients.π Keeping agents on the leash β Tool restriction, behavioral metadata, and drift/anomaly detection so an agent can't reinterpret its own job.β‘ The instant kill switch β Revoke permission, and the agent returns a hard 404, never partial data.βοΈ The liability question β When an agent follows a designed workflow and something goes wrong, who's responsible: patient, host, or provider? The industry hasn't decided.π Kingsley's MCP wishlist β Built-in traceability (OTEL-style spans), native time-bound enforcement, and guardrails against agent-to-agent data leakage.If you're building agentic systems for healthcare, finance, legal, or any regulated industry where "the agent did it" isn't a good enough answer β this one's for you.Links & Resourcesπ HealID β https://gethealid.com/π Kingsley Madikaegbu β https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmadikaegbuπ Alex Salkever / Agentic AI Foundation β linkedin.com/in/alexsalkeverπ MCP Dev Summit North America β https://events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summit-north-america/Timestamps:[



