From Time Magazine:
The next time you get a blood test, X-ray, mammogram, or colonoscopy, there’s a good chance an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm will first interpret the results even before your doctor has seen it.
Over the course of just a few years, AI has spread rapidly into hospitals and clinics around the world. More than 1,000 health-related AI tools have been authorized for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and more than 2 in 3 physicians say they use AI to some degree, according to a recent survey by the American Medical Association. The potential is extraordinary. AI—particularly in the form of AI agents that can reason, adapt, and act on their own—can lighten doctors’ workloads by drafting patient notes and chart summaries, support precision medicine through more targeted therapies, and flag subtle abnormalities in scans and slides that a human eye might miss. It can speed discovery of drugs and drug targets through new processes, such as AI-driven protein structure prediction and design that led to last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. AI can give patients faster, more personalized support by scheduling appointments, answering questions, and flagging side effects. It can help match candidates to clinical trials and monitor health data in real time, alerting clinicians and patients early to prevent complications and improve outcomes.
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