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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Smarter health: How AI could change the relationship between you and your doctor

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Will artificial intelligence replace doctors? It's the final episode in our series “Smarter health." Dr. Sumeet Chugh and Stacy Hurt join Meghna Chakrabarti.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We don't have a healthcare system.

0:03.8

We have thousands of healthcare systems

0:07.8

and a lot of special interests.

0:10.4

That's where the promise of AI really comes in.

0:13.9

The United States spends more on healthcare

0:17.6

than any other country in the world.

0:20.2

But Americans are not as healthy

0:22.1

as people living in other rich nations.

0:24.7

Could artificial intelligence change all that?

0:28.7

Applying AI and machine learning?

0:30.7

All things are possible.

0:31.9

The AI is really helping guide both the app

0:36.2

and then all the way through the care delivery

0:38.1

is going to change today, tomorrow, and next week.

0:42.0

So we have a tool to decrease

0:44.4

in the individual's chance of going blind

0:46.3

from their diabetes.

0:48.0

The algorithm is better than any individual ophthalmologist.

0:52.4

AI can actually pretty accurately predict

0:55.8

when people are actually going to die.

0:58.3

But what are the trade-offs?

1:01.3

How would you feel if you learn that your loved ones

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