KevinMD January 9, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly dominant topic in the daily news. From banking to birding, personalized marketing to publishing, and smart homes to sports, AI is permeating all aspects of society.
In medicine and health care, we are seeing the same thing. We are experiencing a tremendous amount of excitement, promise, and enthusiasm about the potential impact of AI, as well as understandable caution and concern.
Eric Topol’s 2019 book Deep Medicine provides a provocative, innovative, and optimistic foray into the world of AI in medicine, and he expertly addressed this topic further in his plenary talk at ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2024. Since then, AI has continued to rapidly evolve, and the implementation of AI has accelerated....