Know It All: Where AI Helps And Hurts In Health Care

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

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Summary

AI is being used for all kinds of tasks in health care — whether it's administrative ones like taking notes, parsing through patient data, or providing some extra help with reading images.

Some AI platforms like Bayesian Health are helping filter through loads of data that get put into a health system.

And some clinicians are testing out what AI can and can't do quite yet, like a team at Emory University who found out an AI system could detect a patient's self-reported race based on a chest scan.

For this episode of "Know It All: 1A and WIRED's Guide to A.I.", we're exploring what AI in health care looks like today and its potential.

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0:00.0	How would you feel about nurse robot or doctor AI?
0:12.6	Just to be clear, you won't be hearing alibi bak with your meds just yet.
0:17.0	We're a long way off from machine learning fully taking over our health care, but artificial
0:21.6	intelligence is infiltrating medicine, just like it's writing papers, passing exams and
0:27.0	professing love. We're focusing on AI for our series Know It All, one A in Wired Sky
0:33.2	to AI. For this episode, we're looking at artificial intelligence innovation in medicine,
0:38.5	both the benefits and the dangers. Dr. Judy Gichoya is a radiologist at Emory University.
0:44.5	She runs an AI research lab. The way I structure my projects and my students is to pair them
0:50.0	together because the computer science is really need a lot of help learning the medical one
0:54.8	and the medical aside doesn't really realize how much they know from a clinical point,
1:00.4	but they need help from the computer scientists. So that starts to create these forums of shared
1:06.2	communication. So how is AI used in health care and how could it be used? We'll get into those
1:12.4	questions in more after the break. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get
1:17.3	to the heart of the story. Remember to connect with us, download the 1A box pop app and leave us a message.
1:28.8	Let's get into our conversation about AI and health care. Joining us is senior editor Ed Wired,
1:34.8	Tom Simonite. Hi Tom, welcome. Hi, it's nice to be with you today. Also with us is Lema Nazare.
1:41.1	She's an ICU clinical pharmacist and AI researcher at the King Hussein Cancer Center in
1:46.3	Aman, Jordan. Lema, welcome. Well, thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Well, as we
1:50.8	said, you're a clinical pharmacist and an artificial intelligence researcher. You work with oncology
1:56.3	patients. Tell us a little bit about how you're using AI in their care. AI has really expanded
2:04.0	significantly over the past years and I would say within all domains including health care.
2:11.2	What we're looking at at this stage with cancer patients is trying to see if we can develop prediction
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