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AI’s Growing Role in Health Care: Dangers and Opportunities

AI’s Growing Role in Health Care: Dangers and Opportunities
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Walker Larson
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A wave of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation has hit the health care system, rocking the boat in significant ways. AI now plays important roles in many areas of medicine, including medical imaging and diagnostics, notetaking and recordkeeping, billing, drug research, and triage and symptom checking.

Walker Larson
Walker Larson
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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.”