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An article in Newsweek magazine says, "Artificial intelligence will cure America's sick health care system" using data and automation to "drive down the costs of health care while increasing effectiveness." A company called Virta Health has come up with a smartphone app that is like "a live-in doctor and diabetes coach." The patient population consisted of 238 morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes; 90 percent were taking one or more diabetes medications, and 80 percent had hemoglobin A1c levels 6.5 percent. We are going to need a better study with randomized patients and a much longer follow-up period before we can say artificial intelligence is going to "cure America"s sick health care system."