Artificial intelligence in medical care is here to stay -- but it can do more harm than good, especially if those implementing it lose sight of the essential importance of a doctor's clinical judgment. As a primary-care physician, my job is to evaluate and re-evaluate a patient in an ongoing personalized way even the best AI could never attain. Here's an example: An 80-year-old patient of mine with chronic heart failure drank and ate too much on a recent Caribbean cruise and ended up in a hospital, his lungs filled with fluid. A cardiac echo revealed an ejection fraction (how well the heart is pumping) of only 15%. In fact, a recent study concluded AI might have assessed that ejection fraction better than the cardiologist who did so, and this assessment is clearly going to be an important role for AI. But the actual management of the patient went well beyond a simple number.

The NHS is now employing a cutting-edge AI program that can diagnose heart illness in just 20 SECONDS. While the patient is in the scanner, the computer tool, which resembles human ability but with more precision and speed, can analyze cardiac MRI data in 20 seconds. According to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which has supported research into the technology, this is significantly faster than a doctor physically examining the pictures following an MRI scan, which may take up to 13 minutes. The technology identifies heart structure and function changes with 40% greater accuracy and retrieves 40% more information than a human can. According to the new research, the approach was more accurate at analyzing MRIs than the work of three specialists.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool being used in the NHS can detect heart disease at record speed, experts say. The computer tool, which mimics human ability but with greater precision and at a faster speed, can analyse heart MRI scans in just 20 seconds while the patient is in the scanner. This is much quicker than the 13 minutes or more it would take for a doctor to manually examine the images after an MRI scan, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which has funded research into the tool. The technique also detects changes to the heart structure and function with 40% higher accuracy and extracts more information than a human can, the BHF said. A new study concluded the technique was more precise at analysing MRIs than the work of three specialist doctors.

A 24-year-old Dallas man who died after falling off a Lime electric scooter was killed by blunt force injuries to his head, county officials said Thursday, likely making him the first person to die while riding the electric mobility devices that have swept across the nation this year. The death of Jacoby Stoneking has been ruled an accident, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office told The Washington Post before releasing the information publicly. Police said Stoneking was riding a Lime scooter home from a restaurant where he works when the accident occurred. He was found unconscious and badly injured in the early morning hours of Sept. 1, several hundred yards from a scooter that was broken in half. He was not wearing a helmet, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk freely about the investigation. The determination by Dallas officials emerged just after California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill Wednesday that makes it legal for adults to ride electric scooters without a helmet.

A 24-year-old Dallas man who died after falling off a Lime electric scooter was killed by blunt force injuries to his head, county officials said Thursday, likely making him the first person to die while riding the electric mobility devices that have swept across the nation this year. The death of Jacoby Stoneking has been ruled an accident, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office told The Washington Post before releasing the information publicly. Police said Stoneking was riding a Lime scooter home from a restaurant where he works when the accident occurred. He was found unconscious and badly injured in the early morning hours of Sept. 1, several hundred yards from a scooter that was broken in half. He was not wearing a helmet, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk freely about the investigation. The determination by Dallas officials emerged just after California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill Wednesday that makes it legal for adults to ride electric scooters without a helmet.

Medical students are using a robot boy to better understand how young patients respond to treatment. Called HAL, the realistic robot can cry, bleed, talk and go into anaphylactic shock.