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Apr 2023
58m 22s

Is Medicine Ready for AI?

NEJM Group
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In this episode of “Intention to Treat,” Maia Hightower and Isaac Kohane join host Rachel Gotbaum to explore the promise and hazards of artificial-intelligence and machine-learning tools for both clinical and administrative uses in medicine. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301939. 
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