HANOVER, NH (WCAX) – A first-of-its-kind symposium held Wednesday at Dartmouth College explored both the benefits and potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence in health care.
Stanford professor Dr. Curt Langlotz is a leader in the field of AI, studying how machine learning is improving in disease detection, particularly when it comes to reading x-rays and other scanners.
“Showing people the promise of AI as well as some of the challenges and risks that we will see over time,” Langlotz told a room of other clinicians and biomedical researchers at the Institute. One-day symposium at Dartmouth, “AI in Medicine: Connecting Innovation and Practice.”
He claims that AI’s ability to extract and analyze huge amounts of data makes healthcare as a whole more precise. “We will see AI helping caregivers, nurses, doctors and, in fact, helping patients understand their healthcare information,” Langlotz said.
“More precise, more efficient, more accessible to everyone,” said Saeed Hassanpour, director of Dartmouth’s Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence, who helped organize the symposium with the Dartmouth Cancer Center and the Geisel School of Medicine. “This will actually improve efficiency and reduce health care costs.” This will improve accuracy.
And it will be implemented all over the world, including in regions where access to healthcare remains a challenge. “Countries that have fewer resources don’t always have the medical staff that we have here in the United States,” Langlotz said.
But this technology also raises ethical concerns, particularly around patient privacy and data security. But Langlotz says at this point, the good outweighs the bad. “Improve the quality of care, reduce medical errors,” he said.
College officials say they hope to make the symposium an annual event as the center for precision health and artificial intelligence continues to grow.
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