{"id":237465,"date":"2026-05-20T04:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-is-starting-to-beat-doctors-at-making-correct-diagnoses"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:09:49","slug":"ai-is-starting-to-beat-doctors-at-making-correct-diagnoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-is-starting-to-beat-doctors-at-making-correct-diagnoses","title":{"rendered":"AI is starting to beat doctors at making correct diagnoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-starting-to-beat-doctors-at-making-correct-diagnoses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers show that a type of AI known as a large language model often outperformed physicians at diagnosing complex and potentially life-threatening conditions, including decreased blood flow to the heart, even in the fast-moving stages of real ER care when information is limited.<\/p>\n<p>In early ER cases, the model identified the correct or a very close diagnosis in about 67% of cases, compared with roughly 50% to 55% for physicians. And the technology is only getting better.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you walk into an emergency room (ER) in 10 years, you\u2019ll encounter a new type of caregiver: an artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to get you a diagnosis faster and help your care team make more informed decisions. While you sit in the waiting room, you\u2019ll be hooked up to a blood pressure cuff that\u2019s constantly and autonomously monitored. All the while, an AI agent will be listening in while you and your doctor talk about your symptoms, ready to flag any mistakes your physician makes or suggest next steps.<\/p>\n<p>This vision of AI-assisted emergency health care may soon be reality. In a new study, researchers show that a type of AI known as a large language model (LLM) <a href=\"http:\/\/science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adz4433\">often outperformed physicians at diagnosing complex and potentially life-threatening conditions<\/a>, including decreased blood flow to the heart, even in the fast-moving stages of real ER care when information is limited, they report today in <em><i>Science<\/i><\/em>. In early ER cases, the model identified the correct or a very close diagnosis in about 67% of cases, compared with roughly 50% to 55% for physicians. And the technology is only getting better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvaluating AI in medicine demands both depth and breadth across different clinical tasks and settings,\u201d and these authors were able to incorporate both in this study, says Shreya Johri, a computer scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who was uninvolved with the new research. Still, she notes, wide adoption of these AI systems in health care will hinge on knowing the contexts in which they\u2019re most reliable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers show that a type of AI known as a large language model often outperformed physicians at diagnosing complex and potentially life-threatening conditions, including decreased blood flow to the heart, even in the fast-moving stages of real ER care when information is limited. In early ER cases, the model identified the correct or a very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}