AI in Medicine
Currently, the art remains in medicine as physicians remain hands-on in the ultimate decision making about patient care. Will medicine go the way of the driverless car, or will it be more like today’s state-of-the art automobile, where a human remains in control but with added safety features in the form of driver assistance technology? Time will tell - Vijay Pande
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To Make a Real Difference in Health Care, AI Will Need to Learn Like We Do
There’s no question that AI is poised to irrevocably change how we look to prevent and treat illness. Doctors will cede documentation to AI scribes; primary care providers will lean on chatbots for triage; near-endless libraries of predicted protein structures will supercharge drug development. However, to truly transform these fields, we should invest in creating an ecosystem of models—say, “specialist” AIs—that learn like our best physicians and drug developers do today.Articles of Interest
Could Artificial Intelligence Take the Art out of Medicine?
As health care becomes more complex, technological and data-driven, there’s a risk physicians will lose some of their autonomy.
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3 ways AI is already changing medicine
The health care system has been abysmal at doing the very basics of incorporating new technology into medical practice, like digitizing medical records. And Topol makes clear in the book that many of these promising technologies, like avatars for mental health or AI for colonoscopies, need to be further validated and refined in clinical studies...
3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare
For most medical professionals, artificial intelligence (AI) will be an accelerant and enabler, not a threat.
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