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AI is an icy landslide sweeping through healthcare. Even surgeons must choose between two stark options: Ride the crest of the powder cloud now or dig yourselves out of a deep runout zone later.
Keto-diet champions will like the new food pyramid’s emphasis on proteins, including those high in saturated fats. Not everyone shares their predisposition.
Researchers explored more than 100,000 online reviews, using AI to learn as much as possible about what drives patients to give their cardiologist a positive or negative rating.
Using the technology and making it work for purpose are two different things. And the U.S. leads all countries in terms of full implementation, at 24% (vs. 19% for China).
Counties with no cardiologists tend to be “rural and socioeconomically disadvantaged,” researchers noted. The group called for policy reform and new technologies to help address the issue.
Oncologists using or considering AI tools tend to agree among themselves on three points of ethics—and to recognize the same number of ways AI could help advance the state of patient care.
Is U.S. healthcare capable of achieving its own quadruple aim? Or is that ideal destined to remain a perpetual pursuit, always chased but never really caught?