4 Topic Commentaries

AI’s evolving role in clinical care

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  John D. Halamka, MD

  Clinical Informatics

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  Mayo Clinic Platform, Mayo Clinic

  “The future of healthcare depends on clinical insight and technology advancing together,” “Accelerate brings entrepreneurs together with Mayo Clinic clinicians and other leading experts to turn bold ideas into practical solutions that can truly improve how care is delivered. It’s one more way we’re responsibly advancing AI to benefit patients around the world.”

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  Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD

  Biomedical Informatics

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  Harvard Medical School

  “There are so many such details that if we can have AI be part of the decision-making loop, so that things that we forgot about are in fact not forgotten, I think that for the routine care of patients, having AI as an assistant to the doctor is going to play to the strength of the doctor as a intellectual, compassionate provider of care, and this will be a significant boost in quality of care.”

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  Peter J. McDonnell, MD

  Ophthalmology

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  “What’s becoming clear is that harnessing this new technology holds the promise of transforming much of ophthalmology, and this is now a Wilmer-wide effort.” “Computer science can perform some tasks extremely well, freeing up ophthalmologists to focus their time and energy on only those tasks that require all their years of training and that call for ‘the human touch.’”

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  John S. Rumsfeld, MD, PhD

  Cardiology

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  Meta; University of Colorado School of Medicine

  “It’s already clear that clinicians plus AI can outperform clinicians alone in many aspects of clinical care. If we deploy them correctly – with leadership from the medical profession – they can and will make us better at what we do and improve both our lives and those of our patients and their families.”

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