Picture this. You walk into a clinic, and before a human being says one word to you, a machine has viewed and summarized your medical records.
Like it or not, Artificial Intelligence has moved from the research lab into the exam room. Before you see your doctor, AI’s reviewed all of your scans, tests, history, and ratings. And red-flagged anything the AI tool thinks important.
Does that feel like the future of healthcare you want? For many, replacing the human touch with AI raises big questions.
Machines make mistakes. They’re cold. Impersonal. AI hallucinates. And maybe the biggest question: What happens to the human connection with your doctor, radiologist, cardiologist?
Anmol Madan, author of The Machines Will See You Now: A Human Roadmap to Autonomous Health Care, discusses the pros and cons of AI in healthcare. He shares where we’re heading, and why Anmol says that‘s “very good news”.
Meet Anmol Madan
An MIT-trained computer scientist, Anmol Madan was the co-founder/CEO of Ginger.io (acquired by Headspace). He’s the former Chief Data Scientist at Teladoc/Livongo, and the current CEO of RadiantGraph. In The Machines Will See You Now: A Human Roadmap to Autonomous Health Care, Anmol argues for “autonomous health” – machines and human doctors in partnership, with machines handling diagnostics, prediction, and prevention so clinicians can focus on empathy.