EP 1021 Will Your Next Doctor’s Visit Be with a Robot?

 Our guest, a computer scientist, envisions a world of ‘autonomous health,” in which machines and human doctors work in partnership.  The clinicians focus on empathy and human connection while the machines take on the difficult tasks of diagnostics, prediction, and prevention.  To Anmol Madan, author of “The Machines Will See You Now,” he said that we are on the path toward a new type of AI-led health care experience and economy.  Telemedicine and digital health, propelled by COVID, is just the beginning.  And while he says that predictions in this space are difficult to make, the rapid pace of change is accelerating. He thinks the shift, which requires planning and regulation, will increase access to care, reduce costs and make care more personalized.  There is much to make you take note of in his book and presentation.  For example, he posits that in a decade you will be able to see an AI doctor for common health care needs and day to day management.  Now that’s interesting.

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