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Opinion: STAT+: Stop asking if AI is good for medicine
['Priya Abani', 'David J. Hunter', 'Daniel Jernigan', 'Frances Mei Hardin', 'Ronald Nahass', 'Jeff Coller', 'Jason Mast', 'Brian Yang', 'Allison Deangelis', 'Adam Feuerstein']
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That’s the case with a new study in Nature Medicine titled, “Is AI actually improving healthcare?”
So many AI tools are so new that it’s still unclear whether they improve patient outcomes.
In health care, we have a tendency to treat AI as a monolith — a single, mysterious force.
But asking “Is AI actually improving health care?”
is a bit like asking “Do lasers improve surgery?”