How Artificial Intelligence is Used in Healthcare

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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When you go to a medical appointment or get admitted into the hospital, your doctor may be using ChatGPT to save time. Artificial intelligence is already helping medical professionals organize treatment plans, diagnose diseases, and discover new drugs. In the future, it could do even more. We’ll talk to doctors and experts about how AI is being used and its potential and pitfalls in healthcare. Guests: Dr. Bryant Lin, physician and professor, Stanford School of Medicine - He is also a primary care doctor with Stanford Internal Medicine
Ilana Yurkiewicz, physician and professor at Stanford, author of "Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care" Dr. Jonathan Chen, physician and professor, Stanford School of Medicine Adam Yala, professor of Computational Precision Health, UC Berkeley and UCSF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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