Ep 44: Dr. Atul Butte on Healthcare AI Opportunities and Challenges
Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
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Empowerment of Patients through AI in Healthcare
The speaker is cautious about AI like Hippocratic AI replacing doctors or nurses entirely, emphasizing that nurses provide vital functions beyond just talking to patients. However, the speaker supports the concept of patients being empowered by AI and believes that decision support tools in healthcare still offer significant opportunities for companies and academics. Patients are viewed as having the right to access all their data for better understanding and decision-making.
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