[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":309},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-the-age-of-a-i-will-value-compassionate-care-more-than-ever":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":172,"relatedBooks":308},{"id":5,"date":6,"date_gmt":7,"guid":8,"modified":10,"modified_gmt":11,"slug":12,"status":13,"type":14,"link":15,"title":16,"content":18,"excerpt":21,"author":23,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":29,"categories":30,"tags":32,"project_category":45,"contact_email_category":46,"yst_prominent_words":47,"class_list":55,"better_featured_image":75,"acf":107,"yoast_meta":116,"_links":119},22972,"2019-02-02T16:42:22","2019-02-02T14:42:22",{"rendered":9},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=22972&_wpnonce=fd73e18a98&status=auto-draft&type=post","2023-02-09T16:17:06","2023-02-09T15:17:06","the-age-of-a-i-will-value-compassionate-care-more-than-ever","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-age-of-a-i-will-value-compassionate-care-more-than-ever",{"rendered":17},"The Age of A.I. Will Value Compassionate Care More Than Ever",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2019. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While modern medicine created the professional, efficient, metric-driven medic alienated from the patients, the need for compassionate care is more urgent than ever. However, that’s not only up to the physician but also the organization, because individual attempts might result in burnout symptoms. Adoption of A.I. could change the situation for the better in the future, as it would create space for doctors and nurses to spend more quality time with patients. The question is, are doctors ready for it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Medicating Albert, the plush armadillo\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Two years ago, my niece had to spend two weeks in\nhospital as she partially ruptured her Achilles-tendon when she landed unfortunately\nin the sand after a broad jump in her sports class at school. The crying and\nscared 12-year-old was brought to the emergency room by her parents, calmed\ndown and taken care of by a swarm of medical professionals buzzing around in\nher room almost every hour. They did not always come to see my niece – she was\nput in a hospital room shared with five other kids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>One of them was 6-year-old Mark, who suffered a traffic accident when his parents were underway to bring him home from pre-school. One of his legs was in a plaster cast from his toes up to the thighs, and he was unspeakably sad that he wouldn’t be able to play football for a very long time. However, every time he looked at Albert, the plush armadillo, his very best friend in the hospital, he could cheer up a little. My niece told me that the nurses brought in medication for Mark as well as Albert every single day. Of course, the plush armadillo did not get “real” painkillers, but little candies, but he had his own medication box, and Mark was convinced that the nurses are taking the best of care of his armadillo, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Compassionate\ncare is paying attention to the needs of the others, listening to spoken or\nnoticing unspoken wishes, imagining the other person’s situation and expressing\nacts of empathy to lessen suffering, pain or distress. If you need to feed a\nplush armadillo with candies and invent a bedhead board for a toy animal to\nmake a patient feel better, than that’s compassionate care, but it could also\nbe the right tone of voice, a simple touch, a loving glance or just sitting on\nthe bed for a while to provide some company\u003C\u002Fstrong>. As \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kevinmd.com\u002Fblog\u002F2011\u002F10\u002Fcompassionate-care-crucial-component-care.html\">nurse\nand speaker, Joyce Hyam, penned it\u003C\u002Fa>, when you give compassion it will always\nbe remembered. When you receive it, you will always\nhold that memory in your heart. You can make a difference in someone’s life.\nCompassionate care is a crucial component of care. So, how come that it’s\nmissing so much from healthcare these days?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FChildrens-Medical-Centre-512x185.jpg\" alt=\"Compassionate Care\" class=\"wp-image-22973\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FChildrens-Medical-Centre-512x185.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FChildrens-Medical-Centre-768x278.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FChildrens-Medical-Centre-1536x555.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FChildrens-Medical-Centre.jpg 1903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.connecticutchildren.org\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The\nscale from dispassionate healers to mother surrogates\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals genuinely possess the traits of empathy, compassion and the intention to help others – otherwise, they wouldn’t have chosen medicine and care as their profession. However, as they progress through medical school, stress, anxiety, competitiveness and lack of time often start to erode their levels of compassion. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The same will continue on their professional journey: \u003Cstrong>the patient will “get lost” in the ocean of\nCT scans, biopsies, charts, diagnoses, and\nadministrative tasks. The doctor hides behind a pile of papers, badly designed\nIT interfaces, curses the monitor and alienates himself from the people in\nneed. The phenomenon is quite understandable: expressing compassion and\ncarrying the emotional burden together with patients is tough, energy-sucking\nand the environment gives no time for processing it\u003C\u002Fstrong>. It is “easier” to\nhandle 15 patients a day being shut down,\notherwise, the risk of burnout gets higher. Also, the doctor’s figure is\nusually cemented as someone with authority and respect with less inclination to\nshow signs of empathy and emotion in general. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>That’s entirely\nthe reverse in the case of the nurse. Since the era of Florence Nightingale,\nthe founder of modern nursing, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fqualitysafety.bmj.com\u002Fcontent\u002F26\u002F12\u002F1023\">the profession was associated with an idea of doing\nGod’s work through attending to those in need\u003C\u002Fa> – which came into more and more contrast with the\nefficient, professional, “dispassionate healer”.\nNurses are regarded as the ones who will provide attention, deliver words of\nkindness and hold their hands when patients are in agony. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The growing dichotomy between the need for the\n“surrogate parent” sitting at the bedside of patients and the\nperformance-seeking medical professional is at the core of present-day calls\nfor more compassionate care. Why is that so?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monty Python - Hospital Sketch\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FarCITMfxvEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Calling for more compassionate care\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the last decades, \u003Cstrong>medicine and healthcare were so\nfocused on training “metrics-driven”,\nefficient elements in the systemic machine of healing patients reduced to\nnumbers on papers and later in EHRs, that the “surrogate parent” was pushed completely to the background. No wonder –\nit’s expensive, but no one wants to pay\nfor the costs of compassionate care\u003C\u002Fstrong>. First, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fqualitysafety.bmj.com\u002Fcontent\u002F26\u002F12\u002F1023\">staff may have to engage in emotionally charged\ninteractions\u003C\u002Fa>, which can\nleave them feeling psychologically exhausted and at risk of burnout. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Second, for health professionals to be able to connect with patients and understand their unique situation while also addressing fundamental needs (e.g., hygiene, feeding) in a non-mechanistic manner, an appropriately resourced workplace is required. It’s not enough to be empathetic and compassionate on the individual level, the environment should provide a nurturing setting, too. Social norms, such as trust, concern, and empathy as well as leaders demonstrating the meaning of noticing, paying attention and compassion could provide that. As medical facilities are about efficiency than settings for the greater well-being of BOTH patients and physicians, the lack of it might be another explanation for \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fphysician-burnout\">the global physician burnout epidemic\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FCall-For-Compassionate-Care-512x288.jpg\" alt=\"Compassionate Care\" class=\"wp-image-22975\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FCall-For-Compassionate-Care-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FCall-For-Compassionate-Care-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FCall-For-Compassionate-Care-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FCall-For-Compassionate-Care.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.latimes.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>What if virtual reality is thrown into the pool?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the last couple of years, the rapid technological\ndevelopment started to push the efficient medical professional to such a new\nlevel that the “surrogate parent” was almost wholly\nsuppressed – although patients need and want both.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The\nplace for empathy and compassion is so small in healthcare that medical schools\nalready have to have training programs\nfor more sympathy towards patients – with\nsuccess\u003C\u002Fstrong>. A\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fjournals.lww.com\u002Facademicmedicine\u002FAbstract\u002F2011\u002F03000\u002FHumanism_at_Heart__Preserving_Empathy_in.24.aspx\">study\nof 209 medical students\u003C\u002Fa> at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical\nSchool found that the level of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.washingtonpost.com\u002Fnational\u002Fhealth\u002Fdoctors-often-struggle-to-show-compassion-while-dealing-with-patients\u002F2011\u002F05\u002F02\u002FAFiR8A5G_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a1d79ba8c9e\">empathy could be maintained\u003C\u002Fa> among third-year\nstudents who received specialized training. Also, \u003Cstrong>digital health technologies have some potential in aiding the efforts\nto teach compassion.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Researchers\nfrom \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sciencedaily.com\u002Freleases\u002F2017\u002F04\u002F170427091749.htm\">Medical\nCyberworlds Inc. and the University of Michigan conducted research with 421\nmedical students\u003C\u002Fa> about the use of virtual reality in\npatient-doctor communication. They used the Mpathic-VR\ntechnology that allowed users to talk with emotive, computer-based virtual\nhumans who can see, hear and react to them in real time. The virtual\nhumans used a full range of behaviors expected of two people talking together.\nApplying this technique in future curriculums, med students could practice\ndifficult conversations before going out and experiencing them in real life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FMedical-Cyberworlds-512x315.jpg\" alt=\"Compassionate Care\" class=\"wp-image-22976\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FMedical-Cyberworlds-512x315.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FMedical-Cyberworlds-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FMedical-Cyberworlds.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.ictandhealth.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Technology\nimproves care processes, but human skills will be needed\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, \u003Cstrong>technology\ncannot fill the gaps in empathy, compassion, and\nsocial skills. In spite of efforts for \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Falgorithms-robots-mimic-empathy\">robots to mimic empathy\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>,\nthat will remain the territory of humans far into the future. What technology\ncan accomplish is the creation of space for compassionate care\u003C\u002Fstrong>. While the first wave of innovation in healthcare\nstarted to bring EHRs, digital health sensors, big data, genomic reports,\nwearables to care facilities – and the promise to take some burden off the\nshoulder of medical professionals, the process might be longer than expected.\nThe experience of the last years shows that care providers are even more\nburdened by administrative tasks, now also coupled with technological troubles\nand more extended working hours. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the long term, artificial\nnarrow intelligence has the\npotential to genuinely off-load the busy work of physicians. A.I. could accomplish\nrepetitive and monotonous tasks, e.g.,\ndoing the paperwork, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Finsidebigdata.com\u002F2018\u002F09\u002F28\u002Fai-technologies-will-create-doctor-patient-face-time\u002F\">unlock insightful data for diagnosis\u003C\u002Fa>, help in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthaffairs.org\u002Fdo\u002F10.1377\u002Fhblog20180914.711688\u002Ffull\u002F\">reporting quality measures\u003C\u002Fa> or finding just the right studies relevant for the\npractice, while nurses and doctors could do what they should do best: care for\npatients and heal them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FEHR-And-Physicians-512x293.png\" alt=\"Compassionate Care\" class=\"wp-image-22977\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FEHR-And-Physicians-512x293.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FEHR-And-Physicians-768x439.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FEHR-And-Physicians.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.hitconsultant.net\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>What\nto do with more space for compassion?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Although\nthe age of A.I. will undoubtedly open the\ndoor towards compassionate care, the medical profession might struggle to step\nover the threshold. While compassionate care should be the basis of medicine,\nmany professionals, mostly doctors, are alienated from its expression – unlike\nnurses, for example\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As Yuval Noah Harari says in his latest book, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.goodreads.com\u002Fbook\u002Fshow\u002F38820046-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century\">21 Lessons For The 21\u003Csup>st\u003C\u002Fsup> Century\u003C\u002Fa>, that “\u003Cem>many\ndoctors focus almost exclusively on processing information: they absorb medical\ndata, analyze it, and produce a diagnosis. Nurses, in contrast, also need a good motor and emotional skills to give a painful injection, replace a bandage\nor restrain a violent patient. Hence, we will probably have an A.I. family\ndoctor on our smartphone decades before we have a reliable nurse robot.\u003C\u002Fem>”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The passage sheds light on the fact that with the appearance of A.I., doctors will lose some tasks that are traditionally part of their jobs and should get better at others that were considered conventionally as the area of nursing before. Thus, \u003Cstrong>physicians have to get prepared to bring back their abilities to show empathy, compassion, paying attention and communicating with the patients. Of course, beyond their skills to work together with the A.I. and other technologies in a team.\u003C\u002Fstrong> We are not saying that physicians will get replaced by smart algorithms, but it’s certain that their job will get transformed and if they cannot adapt to the new environment, they could find themselves looking for another occupation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FAI-Doctor-512x334.jpg\" alt=\"Compassionate Care\" class=\"wp-image-22978\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FAI-Doctor-512x334.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FAI-Doctor-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FAI-Doctor.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.wsj.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Thus, we amend our favorite saying here: \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>“A.I. will not replace physicians, but physicians who use A.I. and present social skills will replace those who don’t.”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Nursing\nwill thrive\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As life expectancy increases globally – the WHO estimates that it grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the fastest growth since the 1960s – and people in developed countries tend to have fewer children, \u003Cstrong>the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ffuture-empathy-not-coding\">significance of nursing and caretaking jobs in healthcare will amplify\u003C\u002Fa>. The shift already shows in the statistics. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that while jobs for doctors and surgeons will \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bls.gov\u002Fooh\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fphysicians-and-surgeons.htm\">rise\u003C\u002Fa> by 14 percent between 2014 and 2024, the top three direct-care positions – personal-care aide, home-health aide, and nursing assistant – are expected to grow by 26 percent.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>For\nthat, as Livia Gershon writes \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fthe-key-to-jobs-in-the-future-is-not-college-but-compassion\">here\u003C\u002Fa>,\nwe seriously need to rethink our perspective towards jobs requiring social\nskills; as they are usually underpaid and undervalued. As care work and other\ntypes of labor containing mainly soft skills cannot contribute to the GDP\ngrowth as effectively as different types,\nthe global economic system cannot value it appropriately. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We\nexpect that situation to change in the years to come. As the age of artificial\nintelligence and robots is coming, soft skills become much more valued and\nthose who plan to enter the social care sector now will reap the benefit of it\n– not to speak about patients and society in general!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FFuture-of-Nursing-512x288.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22979\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FFuture-of-Nursing-512x288.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FFuture-of-Nursing-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FFuture-of-Nursing-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FFuture-of-Nursing-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F02\u002FFuture-of-Nursing-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The Medical Futurist believes that compassionate care and all the areas of healthcare requiring soft skills, such as empathy, compassion, the ability to listen, pay attention and communicate will thrive much more in the age of artificial intelligence as we would expect. While social workers, nurses, and caregivers will finally (and hopefully) receive the recognition from society that they deserve, doctors have to keep in mind that to remain relevant they have to polish their social skills and learn how to cooperate with artificial intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. A community of empowered patients, future-oriented healthcare professionals, concerned health policymakers, sensible health tech developers, and enthusiastic medical students. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our research and sustains our future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">\u003Cstrong style=\"background-color: #e71d3299; color: #000;\">Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – it only takes a minute. Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",false,{"rendered":22,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>While modern medicine created the professional, efficient, metric-driven medic alienated from the patients, the need for compassionate care is more urgent than ever. However, that’s not only up to the physician but also the organization, because individual attempts might result in burnout symptoms. Adoption of A.I. could change the situation for the better in the future, as it would create space for doctors and nurses to spend more quality time with patients. 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THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"aa0sd-0-0\">It took some time for the medical community to accept the stethoscope. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class=\"hardreadability\">\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"aa0sd-1-0\">It will also take a while to recognize A.I. as a full-fledged health tool – despite its \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"aa0sd-2-0\">vast potential to revolutionize healthcare\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"aa0sd-3-0\">. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class=\"hardreadability\">\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"aa0sd-4-0\">Yet, it is so powerful that when it will finally take its rightful place in healthcare, it will displace the stethoscope as its symbol\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"aa0sd-5-0\">.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watson is better in Jeopardy than humans\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In 2011, people witnessed an interesting competition on the television quiz show Jeopardy. It featured the two best players in the history of the show, Ken Jennings, who had the longest unbeaten run of 74 winning appearances, and Brad Rutter, earner of the biggest prize of $3.25 million. Their opponent was a huge computer with over 750 servers and a cooling system stored at a location so as not to disturb the players. The room–sized machine was made by IBM and named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson. It did not smile or show emotion, but it kept on giving good answers. At the end, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ibm.com\u002Fsmarterplanet\u002Fus\u002Fen\u002Fibmwatson\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Watson\u003C\u002Fa> won the game with $77,147 leaving Rutter and Jennings with $21,600 and $24,000 respectively. It left the audience in shock and awe at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Cognitive computers have been developing rapidly\u003C\u002Fstrong> over the last few years following \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.wired.com\u002F2014\u002F10\u002Ffuture-of-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">three technological breakthroughs\u003C\u002Fa>. One is cheap parallel computation due to a new kind of chip called a graphics processing unit (GPU). The second one is accessible big data due to massive databases, web cookies, wearable devices and decades of search results. The third one is building better algorithms due to the services of Netflix, Google, Amazon and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson_jeopardy.jpg\" alt=\"A.I. stethoscope of the 21st century\" class=\"wp-image-16028\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson_jeopardy.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson_jeopardy-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson_jeopardy-512x343.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson_jeopardy-374x250.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do we have to fear cognitive computers taking our jobs?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Some started to contemplate about how A.I. would replace many jobs, overtake the human race in thinking. \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Ftechnology-30290540\">Stephen Hawking even said that\u003C\u002Fa> the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Elon Musk agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, it is not inevitable that the use of A.I. leads to the loss of the human touch. In 1997, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue could beat Garry Kasparov, the reigning chess grand master that time. He said he could have performed better if he had access to the same databases as Deep Blue. So later, freestyle matches were organized in which supercomputers could play against human chess players assisted by AI (they were called human\u002FAI centaurs). Guess what! In 2014 in a Freestyle Battle, the AI chess players won 42 games, but centaurs won 53 games. The best potential pair is a human with technology. \u003Cstrong>This is the only balance that can lead to a positive future\u003C\u002Fstrong> with more and more disruptive innovations including ever-improving cognitive computing but an also ever-improving human intelligence and wisdom. This is the winning combination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Ca class=\"img\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fkasparov.jpg\"\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fkasparov.jpg\" alt=\"Garry Kasparov & A.I.\" class=\"wp-image-12302\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fkasparov.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fkasparov-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fkasparov-512x329.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fkasparov-389x250.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cfigcaption>Garry Kasparov ponders his chess moves during his third game with IBM’s Deep Blue Tuesday, Feb.13, 1996 at the Convention Center in Philadelphia. Wednesday’s game ended in a draw, but Kasparov ended up winning the final game and series 4-2 against the supercomputer. “Fighting this computer has changed the way I–and I imagine most others–will approach the game in the future,” he said after winning the final game Saturday night. (AP Photo\u002FGeorge Widman)\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Stethoscope to Cognitive Computers\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>People don’t like change. It is not any different in healthcare. It took plenty of time until the stethoscope, the symbol of healthcare was accepted by the medical community back in the 19th century. The instrument was \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FStethoscope#History\">invented by French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec\u003C\u002Fa>, who published its description in 1819, but it took several decades until doctors actually started using it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I don’t expect any difference with A.I. After many of my talks, physician colleagues ask me whether artificial intelligence might replace them in their jobs and whether algorithms can eventually become better at making diagnoses. Both will happen but not the way they imagine it. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fartificial-intelligence-will-redesign-healthcare\u002F\">Huge waves are coming to healthcare to transform the job of physicians\u003C\u002Fa> into something distinctly different than before. Although some of their tasks will be taken over by A.I., they will have more time for others, for example, deal with patients with real care and patience. Doctors will not have to struggle with being up-to-date in medical research, with administrative tasks, with consultation or making notes. They do not have to have a headache about how to choose the best therapy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Cognitive computers will help physicians diagnose much better –  the same way stethoscope could change the medical profession\u003C\u002Fstrong> from the early 19th century on; when a wooden tube working like an ear trumpet could make doctors listen to cardiac and lung sounds at the point of care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fhealthcare_ai.jpg\" alt=\"A.I. stethoscope\" class=\"wp-image-16030\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fhealthcare_ai.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fhealthcare_ai-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fhealthcare_ai-512x330.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fhealthcare_ai-389x250.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>A.I. will open a new dimension for healthcare\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>What even the most acclaimed professors know cannot match cognitive computers. As the amount of information they accumulate grows exponentially, the assistance of computing solutions in medical decisions is imminent. A.I. will open new dimensions for doctors on the personal level as well as for hospitals and other medical institutions on the structural level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>On the institutional level, the most obvious use of A.I. will be data management. Collecting it, storing it, normalizing it, tracing its lineage – it is the first step in revolutionizing the existing healthcare systems. Recently, the AI research branch of the search giant, Google, launched its Google Deepmind Health project, which is used to mine the data of medical records in order to provide better and faster health services.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>It could also analyze entire healthcare systems. For example, 97 percent of healthcare invoices in the Netherlands are digital containing data regarding the treatment, the doctor, and the hospital. These invoices could be easily retrieved. A local company, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.zorgprismapubliek.nl\u002F\">Zorgprisma Publiek\u003C\u002Fa> analyzes the invoices and uses IBM Watson in the cloud to mine the data. They can tell if a doctor, clinic or hospital makes mistakes repetitively in treating a certain type of condition in order to help them improve and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations of patients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cp>[subscribe image=”false” type=”article-horizontal”]Subscribe to\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cb>The Medical Futurist℠ Newsletter\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>News shaping the future of healthcare\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Advice on taking charge of your health\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Reviews of the latest health technology\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>[\u002Fsubscribe]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A.I. will help doctors in previously unimaginable ways\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Precision medicine, targeted treatments, and personalized solutions: these are the buzzwords in current healthcare – and not by chance. A.I. will help physicians work out the best therapies for their patients. IBM has already taken the first steps. Watson launched its special program \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ibm.com\u002Fwatson\u002Fwatson-oncology.html\">for oncologists\u003C\u002Fa> – and I interviewed one of the professors working with it – which is able to provide clinicians evidence-based treatment options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Moreover, A.I. has the potential to eliminate hideous tasks, such as administrative or repetitive work. For example, IBM’s \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fresearcher.watson.ibm.com\u002Fresearcher\u002Fview_group.php?id=4384\">Medical Sieve\u003C\u002Fa> will become the next generation “cognitive assistant” with analytical, reasoning capabilities and a wide range of clinical knowledge. The algorithm will be qualified to assist in clinical decision making in radiology and cardiology. A.I. assistants could also look up relevant medical information and keep doctors up-to-date in clinical research. IBM has the capacity to scan through millions of pages in seconds. Imagine the possibilities that lie ahead of us!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Moreover, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F10-things-how-artificial-intelligence-could-make-me-a-better-doctor\u002F\">A.I. could eradicate waiting time\u003C\u002Fa> by optimizing both physicians’ and patients’ schedules. It could prioritize doctors’ emails so as the most urgent messages would reach them in time. It could also help patients sort out their simpler medical issues thus reducing the burden on doctors. If you look at all the advantages of A.I., your question will only be when it will finally reach our hospitals and why it is not there already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai_health-infrastructure.jpg\" alt=\"A.I. stethoscope\" class=\"wp-image-16031\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai_health-infrastructure.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai_health-infrastructure-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai_health-infrastructure-512x256.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai_health-infrastructure-458x229.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A.I. will augment clinical practice\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>There are already certain places where A.I. is tested. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdeepmind.com\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google DeepMind\u003C\u002Fa> already launched a partnership with the UK’s National Health Service to improve the process of delivering care with digital solutions. In June 2017,\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2017\u002F06\u002F22\u002Fdeepmind-health-inks-another-5-year-nhs-app-deal-in-face-of-ongoing-controversy\u002F\"> DeepMind expanded its services – first of all, its data management app, Streams, to another UK hospital\u003C\u002Fa>. This expansion comes despite ongoing \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2016\u002F05\u002F04\u002Fconcerns-raised-over-broad-scope-of-deepmind-nhs-health-data-sharing-deal\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversy over the company’s first NHS data-sharing agreement\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Google DeepMind’s number one competitor, IBM Watson is used at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.stfc.ac.uk\u002Fnews\u002Falder-hey-children-s-hospital-set-to-become-uk-s-first-cognitive-hospital\u002F\">as part of a science and technology facilities council project being run by the Hartree Centre\u003C\u002Fa>. Dr. Iain Hennessey, Clinical Director of Innovation \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhat-is-using-ibm-watson-in-medicine-like\u002F\">told me\u003C\u002Fa>, t\u003Cem>he UK is spending £300 million pounds to develop its capabilities in this area and they are one of the first use cases.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson-for-oncology.jpg\" alt=\"A.I. stethoscope\" class=\"wp-image-16033\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson-for-oncology.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson-for-oncology-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson-for-oncology-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson-for-oncology-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fwatson-for-oncology-445x250.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I also talked to Martijn G.H. Van Oijen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam about Watson. As a clinical epidemiologist, he worked with IBM Watson for Oncology in preparation for a research proposal studying the role of Digital Decision Support tools. With several clinical colleagues of the department of Medical Oncology, they studied Watson for Oncology’s approach in approximately 400 surrogate patients with breast, lung or colorectal cancer. He believes that Watson for Oncology could result in a reduction of costs and efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>They both agreed that AI cannot be a substitute for communication. \u003Cem>Right now, the technology is in its infancy, but improving all the time\u003C\u002Fem>, said Hennessey. My prediction is that it will gradually appear in more and more hospitals and get through the initial phase very quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What can we do to facilitate change?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u003Cp>Although A.I. is coming as fast as Daenerys Targaryen to Westeros, it will need the medical community’s understanding, initiative and drive for a better healthcare in order to work its best. If we introduced A.I. everywhere from Bolivia to Harvard, healthcare would not change a bit. There are many reasons for it and every stakeholder in healthcare should play its part to improve those elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cfigure>\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16032 size-full\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai-in-medicine.jpg\" alt=\"A.I. stethoscope\" width=\"1910\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai-in-medicine.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai-in-medicine-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai-in-medicine-512x268.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2014\u002F11\u002Fai-in-medicine-458x240.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Medical professionals\u003C\u002Fstrong> should acquire basic knowledge about how AI works in a medical setting in order to understand how such solutions might help them in their everyday job. They also need to constantly think about where automation could let their jobs do better.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Decision makers\u003C\u002Fstrong> at healthcare institutions should do everything to be able to measure the success and the effectiveness of the system. This is the only way to assess the quality of AI’s help in medical decision making.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Companies\u003C\u002Fstrong> such as IBM should communicate even more towards the general public about the potential advantages and risks of using AI in medicine – and sort out data privacy issues such as \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2017\u002F06\u002F22\u002Fdeepmind-health-inks-another-5-year-nhs-app-deal-in-face-of-ongoing-controversy\u002F\">the recent concerns with the NHS\u003C\u002Fa>!\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Non-English speaking countries should invest in \u003Cstrong>natural language processing\u003C\u002Fstrong> (NLP). If the patient information is not in English, A.I. needs to understand the content and context of the structured and unstructured information in that language.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Fol>\n\u003Cp>Artificial intelligence will become the stethoscope of the 21st century, but it can only do its best when there is a wide cooperation between technology and the medical community. 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