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This is On Point. I'm Megna ChakraBardi. Artificial intelligence is changing everything,

even your visits to your doctor. There are a bunch of tools that are already starting to be

used that help automate parts of the doctor's job.

Things like, oh, language models can help me write my notes better or write emails better.

I think there are increasingly even tools that start looking at images, for example,

ultrasound images of the heart, and pre-populating a report that a cardiologist would write about that.

Dr. Ziod Obermeier is an associate professor of health policy and management

at the University California Berkeley School of Public Health.

There's a second type of tool that I find even more exciting than that,

which is tools that help doctors do things that doctors don't know how to do today.

And so one example of that is my colleague Regina Barsoway at MIT has done an enormous amount of work on developing

AI tools to read mammograms in ways that are actually better than what any radiologists can do.

And so this algorithm looks at a bunch of mammograms and looks at the

outcomes that patients have over the next five years. Do they get a biopsy? Do they end up having

progression in their breast cancer? And it learns from those data and then delivers a prediction

based on how the mammogram looks today about what's going to happen to that patient's cancer.

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