Politico January 26, 2024
The U.S. health system has the data.
AI could be the key to actually using it.
That’s the future Dr. Atul Butte, chief data scientist at the University of California Health System, imagined in a recent interview with JAMA.
How’s that? AI has the potential to make good on many promises that came with electronic health records, he said, putting the data collected to better use in research and, ultimately, patient care.
“To me, it’s a tragedy now if we don’t use all that data to improve the practice of medicine,” Butte said.
AI doesn’t provide answers the way that researchers’ gold standard, the randomized controlled trial, does. But there are benefits in having both, Butte said.
What’s next? Hospitals...
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