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Taking doctors out of the AI loop
Ruth digs into a controversial new paper on AI's role in medicine
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Verifying AI in Medicine: Is Healthcare AI Actually Ready for Deployment?
Bloomberg stops covering health insurance in the latest sign of rising care costs
Christina Farr, Ruth Reader and Annalise Merelli
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Healthcare AI Has an ROI Problem
Takeaways from the Ai4 Conference
Christina Farr, Ruth Reader and Annalise Merelli
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Where are AI Agents Actually Working in Healthcare, and Why?
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Verifying AI in Medicine: Is Healthcare AI Actually Ready for Deployment?
Is AI ready for real-world clinical care? Dr. Zak Kohane and Protege’s Engy Ziedan debate what it takes to safely trust AI in diagnosis and treatment, from benchmark performance and clinical evidence to whether we’re holding AI to a higher standard than humans.
A bit about Second Opinion
Healthcare is complicated. The incentives are strange, the acronyms are endless, and the stakes are enormous.
At Second Opinion, we try to make sense of it. We cover the business of healthcare, from policy shifts and startup bets to the capital and ideas shaping the future of care.
I'm Christina Farr. I've spent more than a decade covering healthcare and now invest in the industry as a General Partner at Scrub Capital.
If you care about where healthcare is headed, you're in the right place. We're glad you're here.