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How AI could bring Mayo-quality health care to everyone
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Their wife, Autumn, has spent nearly a quarter of the past four years in ERs and hospitals, untangling and battling three chronic conditions, and a shamefully broken U.S. medical system.
Key facts
- But the real difference-maker: Doctors and patients leverage massive databases of medical information, sorted and analyzed by AI, then channeled into 500 different algorithms to help find cures
- But smart policymakers, working with experts at Mayo and beyond, could spare millions of Americans Autumn's health care hell
- None of this works unless health data is arranged maximally for humans and AI agents," Farrugia told me
- But it's the power of AI that could make the biggest difference and scale this further, the fastest, Farrugia argues
Summary
The team live in Washington, D.C., with top-rated hospitals in their backyard. What it's like: ERs so hauntingly jammed she's often stacked like cargo in hallways, on a stretcher, waiting double-digit hours for care. Doctors forbidden from, or uninterested in, working with experts beyond their domain to solve complex conditions. You need a forensic detective to hunt down medical records scattered across random portals and hospitals. And then a miracle to get anyone to piece them together for clues.