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AI’s Growing Role in Healthcare: Dangers and Opportunities

AI’s Growing Role in Healthcare: Dangers and Opportunities
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Walker Larson
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A wave of AI innovation has hit the healthcare system, rocking the boat in significant ways. Artificial intelligence now plays important roles in medicine, including participating in medical imaging and diagnostics, notetaking and recordkeeping, billing, drug research, and triage and symptom checking.
Walker Larson
Walker Larson
Author
Before becoming a freelance journalist and culture writer, Walker Larson taught literature and history at a private academy in Wisconsin, where he resides with his wife and daughter. He holds a master’s in English literature and language, and his writing has appeared in The Hemingway Review, Intellectual Takeout, and his Substack, The Hazelnut. He is also the author of two novels, “Hologram” and “Song of Spheres.”