medical-ai
4 stories tagged "medical-ai"
An AI Read 4.4 Million Mother-and-Baby Records and Says It Can Predict Illness. It Has Yet to Meet a Living Patient.
MoChiAgent forecasts maternal and infant disease from hospital records at a scale no clinician could read. A cautionary predecessor, Epic's sepsis tool, caught only a third of the cases it promised to catch.
InvestigationsOn the Study's Cleanest Test, the Doctors' $12 Billion AI Only Tied Google's Free Search Box
In June a Nature Medicine paper crowned general chatbots over the specialized AI that 40 percent of U.S. doctors use. Its biggest margins came from a public exam and a benchmark OpenAI built. On the one test made for the comparison, the expensive tool only matched a free Google box.
InvestigationsMIT Put an AI Skin Doctor in Front of 776 People. Its Friendliest Feature Fooled the Ones Who Needed Help Most.
623 lay people and 153 doctors used the same AI to read skin conditions. The doctors shrugged off its bad advice. Everyone else trusted it more the more fluently it explained itself.
InvestigationsEurope Called Medical AI 'High Risk' and Still Gave Patients No Right to Refuse It
An algorithm once cut the extra care flagged for Black patients by more than half, and ran for years before anyone noticed. A commentary in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine says the rules now governing medical AI would not have caught it.