WBUR's On Point brings you Smarter health, a four-part series exploring how artificial intelligence and machine learning may revolutionize the …

Find all episodes of our series Smarter health here. Stacy Hurt is a cancer survivor and patient advocate. She says AI could transform health care for the better, as long as it doesn't transform the sacred patient-doctor relationship for the worse. "Any technology that occurs should only enhance that. It should not put any distance between that," she says.

This is the first episode in our series Smarter health. American health care is complex. In the first episode in our series Smarter health, we explore the potential of AI in health care -- from predicting patient risk, to diagnostics, to just helping physicians make better decisions. Today, On Point: We consider whether AI's potential can be realized in our financially-motivated health care system. Welcome to an On Point special series: Smarter health: Artificial intelligence and the future of American health care. In the not so distant future, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies could transform the health care you receive, whether you're aware of it or not. Here are just a couple of examples. Dr. Vindell Washington is chief clinical officer at Verily Life Sciences, which is owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet. Washington oversees the development of Onduo. Technology that weaves together multiple streams of complex, daily medical data in order to guide and personalize health care decisions across entire patient populations. VINDELL WASHINGTON [Tape]: You might have a blood pressure cuff reading, you may have a blood sugar reading, you may have some logging that you've done.

This is the first episode in our series Smarter health. American health care is complex. In the first episode in our series Smarter health, we explore the potential of AI in health care -- from predicting patient risk, to diagnostics, to just helping physicians make better decisions. Today, On Point: We consider whether AI's potential can be realized in our financially-motivated health care system. Welcome to an On Point special series: Smarter health: Artificial intelligence and the future of American health care.

CHAKRABARTI: Episode one, the digital caduceus. In the not so distant future, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies could …