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Thoughtful and provocative insights are a hallmark of Michael’s writing as a longtime, invited contributor to Forbes.com.

Artificial intelligence-aided diagnosis may seem futuristic, but a recent National Academy of Medicine workshop heard compelling examples of promise and perils right now.

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ChatGPT Is Michael Jordan, But In Medicine The “Supporting Cast” Will Be Key

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the chatbot’s solo brilliance will need the right “supporting cast” – as Jordan famously referred to teammates – to achieve its transformational potential in medicine.

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Your Doctor Consulting ChatGPT Isn’t An Intelligent Choice (Yet): Study

Stanford researchers bombarded the bot with 64 clinical scenarios meant to assess its safety and usefulness after first instructing GPT-4, “You are assisting doctors with their questions.”

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Good News For Guys: ‘The Finger,’ Your Sex Life And Prostate Cancer

It may be time for some men to wave farewell to “the finger.” And in other good news, new evidence supports therapy for localized prostate cancer that avoids the risks of incontinence and impotence that have long haunted more aggressive treatments.

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In Cancer, Patient-Empowering AI Begins To Change Care, Relationships

Artificial intelligence is quietly giving patients the ability to find, create and act upon an unprecedented breadth and depth of authoritative information.

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AI-Driven Medical Care? A Health Data Reality Check

“The reality is that we have a disaggregated, fragmented system with a lack of organization around common, transparent, high-quality information.”

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Despite Retro Name, Health Datapalooza Looks Ahead To Patient-Centered Digital Future

“The purpose of Datapalooza is getting beyond the hype to show what’s going to work in the real world, what’s the value to patient care.”

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Would A “patient-Centered” Sepsis Measure Have Saved This Man’s Arms And Legs?

A recent JAMA article proposing a different way of measuring hospitals’ sepsis care contained for me a powerful “between the lines” message. “Could this have saved Brad from having parts of both arms and legs amputated?”

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At CES, A Tractor And A Patient Stethoscope Point To Digital Health Future

Deere’s “smart machines” incorporate computer vision, soil moisture sensing, GPS with precise signal correction, machine learning and cloud computing…In health care terms, that adds up to personalized, evidence-based farming.

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Address ‘Plane-Crash Level’ Patient Harm, HHS Tells Hospitals, As Political Currents Swirl

The Department of Health and Human Services is launching an Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety that aims to recruit the nation’s largest health systems as participants.

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When Medical Error Becomes Personal, Activism Becomes Painful

Though I’d never myself experienced a medical error, I became an activist. Recently, however, a relative was a victim, and the frustrating persistence of error became personally painful. [So I examined] more closely what the profession euphemistically …

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Digital Health Firms Reverse Dollar-Bill Motto In Bid To Make Big Bucks

Digital health firms are increasingly betting that the key to success is offering “one to many” technologies that addresses workforce shortages by expanding the reach of clinicians.

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‘No Weekend Surgery’ Dooming Many Awaiting Life-Saving Transplants, Says A New Report

Large numbers of Americans awaiting life-saving organ transplants are dying because many transplant centers don’t do surgery on the weekend. The overall rejection rate for available kidneys could be slashed…by measures such as ensuring centers perfor…

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