Health Affairs September, 2019
Eric Topol sees a future in which doctors use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze billions of pieces of medical, social, genetic, and environmental information—continuously and automatically collected—to produce diagnoses and treatments individually tailored to the patient in front of them.
It’s a future in which algorithms digest the peculiarities of your gut’s microbiome (advising, say, strawberry Danishes rather than banana nut muffins) and in which the medication prescribed for your particular flavor of diabetes was discovered by a machine that sifted through trillions of molecules to identify the most promising chemical compounds. It’s a future with AI-powered electronic medical assistants—Alexas with medical school degrees—who listen to your visit, place orders, schedule follow-up, and generate the required documentation. All without your...
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