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'Stop Disease Before It Happens': Government Plans To Roll Out Challenge For Private Investment In AI To Provide Better Health Care
A top U.S. health official said Wednesday that the government will launch an 鈥渁rtificial intelligence health outcomes challenge鈥 to spur private investment in the technology and help rethink the delivery of medical care. Adam Boehler, head of Medicare and Medicaid鈥檚 innovation institute, said the goal of the initiative is to drive broader uptake of AI to help root out wasteful care, improve quality, and cut costs. (Ross, 2/13)
By now everyone鈥檚 heard about the potential of artificial intelligence in medicine to revolutionize things like interpreting medical data and predicting patient outcomes. And everyone鈥檚 probably heard plenty, too, about how much hype is out there about what these algorithms can actually do. But what does the evidence say? Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, recently published a review article in the journal Nature Medicine in which he sifted through the research available on AI in medicine. He wasn鈥檛 impressed. (Robbins, Feuerstein and Garde, 2/14)
