Using AI to Help Doctors Save Lives

Betsey Stevenson is a labor economist at the University of Michigan, and she was an economic adviser to President Obama. Betsey’s problem is this: How can we create a world where the benefits of AI are broadly shared? Betsey draws on history – including how the invention of house ...  Show more

Maps have gotten much better over the past few decades. But they're still mostly two dimensional, and they struggle to keep up with a world that is always changing. Brian McClendon is the Chief Technology Officer of Niantic Spatial, a spinout of the company that makes Pokémon Go. ...  Show more

A doctor's job is to help patients. With that help, often comes lots and lots of paperwork. That's where some startups are betting artificial intelligence may come in. The hope is that chatbots could generate data like treatment plans that would let doctors spend less time on pap ...  Show more

This is another episode in our AI is Here series, and today, we're focusing on AI in the hospital setting. In this episode, we discuss patient data and being able to guide a patient's treatment journey with artificial intelligence. Our guest is Dr. Kostas Papagiannopoulos. Kos ...

Today's guest is Dr. Nele Jessel, Chief Medical Officer at Athenahealth. Athenahealth is one of the leading U.S. providers of network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps. She joins us on the program to talk about the biggest challenges facing healthca ...

One out of five Americans suffer from chronic pain and a new approach to treatment could transform their lives. Judith Warner speaks with Drs. Yoni Ashar and Tor Wager, neuroscientists who are at the forefront of a new way to understand and treat chronic pain that looks to the br ...  Show more