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Healthcare: How AI is transforming healthcare

Healthcare: How AI is transforming healthcare

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Healthcare: How AI is transforming healthcare

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- Along with food and water, healthcare is the most essential industry in every economy. For much of human history, medical decisions were based entirely on the basis of the knowledge and experience residing in a doctor's or other caregivers head. With the advent of big data and AI, this is changing rapidly. Doctors, nurses, testing labs and hospitals can now benefit from the collective expertise of the entire world embedded in AI models. Take DXplain, an AI tool developed at Massachusetts General Hospital. Developed to assist family practice doctors make better clinical diagnoses. The AI tool is designed as a dialogue based system that provides suggestions based on clinical information. On a diagnostic test with family medicine residents, the AI tool improved their accuracy from 74% to 84%. AI is also helping diagnose more complex diseases. Computer vision models can already match the accuracy of top radiologists at…

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