This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, could autonomous AI deliver better care than doctors - even doctors using AI?
Louise and George examine the provocative new JAMA argument that human oversight may sometimes make medical AI less accurate, before confronting a very real counterpoint: an AI scribe that invented psychedelic mushroom use in an Australian patient’s medical record.
They also discuss Australia’s move to connect wearable devices to national digital health infrastructure; new AMA(US) guidance on making wearable data clinically useful; and an international survey exposing major failures in care coordination.
Finally, Google’s video-enabled AMIE can now interview, observe and guide simulated patients through elements of a virtual examination. If AI can see, hear and assess the patient, does virtual care still require a human clinician, or a radically different model of clinical governance?
Research Opportunities:
AI policy vs frontline reality survey (deadline 2 September)
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Resources:
JAMA Perspective, "Will Autonomous AI Exceed AI-Aided Physicians as the Best Medical Care?"
Link ABC News, "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"
Link US AMA, "Here's how to make the most of patients' wearable data"
Link Commonwealth Fund, "How Care Coordination Varies Internationally"
Link Google Research, "Towards Expert-level Medical AI for Real-time Video Consultations"
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