Council Post: How Artificial Intelligence-Powered Tools Can Support Clinical Decision-Making

At the end of a long week filled with too many deadlines and too little sleep, you wake up one morning woozy with a strange pain in your arm. You call your doctor, and she asks you a series of questions over the phone. She then tells you to go to the emergency room pronto: "I suspect you're having a heart attack." The doctor reached that conclusion not by simply making an educated guess, but by evaluating the data and using deductive reasoning. In medical school, physicians learn to estimate probabilities of disease based on symptoms, patient history, examination findings and labs or images.