How AI could help doctors diagnose and treat you

Knowles said researchers then pulled the charts of those individuals the algorithm identified as likely having FH and found the system performed about as well as a human in diagnosing patients. "You could imagine this happening for … many potentially important conditions, not just FH," Knowles said. At the Cleveland Clinic researchers and doctors are using machine learning to predict the wellbeing of certain patients. "We're doing things to help us identify high-risk patients," explained Cleveland Clinic's Executive director of enterprise information management and analytics Chris Donovan. "So what patients are at risk of being admitted, what patients are at risk of deterioration in their care, or in their clinical condition and how do we intervene on those patients proactively."