What’s Inside?

In an old episode of Seinfeld George Costanza once asked Kramer about a discoloring on his lip and Kramer, classically, said “Whoa buddy – better get that checked out,“ so George did but his doctor said, “Well I don’t know what that is…I haven’t seen that.”  

Good thing for us, artificial intelligence seems to be helping where TV doctors and others fall short, particularly when the issue is inside the body. AI used at three UPMC hospitals in Pennsylvania performed better than the most common methods for diagnosing certain heart conditions in patients with chest pain, according to a recent published study. And in another study, researchers found that AI helped predict the development of Parkinson’s disease after analyzing data from over 100,000 smartwatch users. Despite the uptick of AI in healthcare, a recent survey found that 80% of patients still are not comfortable with AI and would prefer seeing actual providers for most healthcare services.