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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again "Can AUTHOR: ERIC TOPOL EDITION: FIRST YEAR: 2019 PUBLISHER: BASIC BOOKS, NEW YORK ISBN 9781541644632
medicine be more human because of AI?" The
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Intelligence (AI) tools in healthcare is approaching a point in time where it is imperative for health care professionals and the general population to recognize the numerous ways in which data driven AI tools are poised to impact the practice of medicine and the way care is delivered. While the media coverage and most Reviewed by Elan Somasundaram, PhD. Faculty in the Imaging Research Center and AI Core at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. See his research and publications here.
academic literature paint a rosy picture on the uncanny abilities of AI in healthcare and how they would transform medicine, the reality is more nuanced and requires extensive discussion, education, planning
and rethinking of priorities such that this new era of AI augmented medicine is truly transformational and equitable to everyone involved in healthcare. Deep Medicine by Eric Topol is a comprehensive work that lays down the premise of AI in healthcare, how it could solve current challenges in medicine, and provides a list of desirable outcomes that should drive the design and adoption of AI systems in the clinic. The author presents his viewpoints substantiated with extensive literature survey and anecdotes derived from his long experience as a cardiologist, as a consultant for various AI initiatives, and from his encounters with the healthcare system as a patient.
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