{"id":89677,"date":"2019-04-18T02:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/can-machines-make-medicine-better-and-more-humane"},"modified":"2019-04-18T02:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:04:21","slug":"can-machines-make-medicine-better-and-more-humane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/can-machines-make-medicine-better-and-more-humane","title":{"rendered":"Can machines make medicine better \u2014 and more humane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-machines-make-medicine-better-and-more-humane2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topol is a dreamer. \u201cOne can imagine that AI will rescue medicine from all that ails it, including diagnostic inaccuracy,\u201d he writes. (There are roughly 12 million misdiagnoses of serious illness in the United States every year, and medical error kills a quarter-million Americans annually.) But even Topol admits that this hope is far from being actualized. Indeed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cardiologist Eric Topol explores the benefits of artificial intelligence in medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/can-machines-make-medicine-better--and-more-humane\/2019\/04\/04\/9a4cc24c-4cc3-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html?noredirect=on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topol is a dreamer. \u201cOne can imagine that AI will rescue medicine from all that ails it, including diagnostic inaccuracy,\u201d he writes. (There are roughly 12 million misdiagnoses of serious illness in the United States every year, and medical error kills a quarter-million Americans annually.) But even Topol admits that this hope is far from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89677","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}