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Five NAM Members Elected to the Academy’s Governing Council
Five NAM members have been elected to serve 3-year terms on the Academy's Governing Council beginning July 1, 2020: Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, Chief Health Officer, Google Health Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia...
NAM Elects Dzau for Second Term as President, Elects Del Rio as Foreign Secretary
WASHINGTON — Victor J. Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), has been elected to a second, six-year term, beginning in July. In addition, Carlos del Rio, executive associate dean for Emory University School of Medicine at Grady Health System and...
National Academy of Sciences honors 2 NAM members for major contributions to science
The National Academy of Sciences will honor 15 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and medical sciences. Two of the fifteen are also members of the National...
United States Government Accountability Office Releases Technology Assessment on Artificial Intelligence and Health Care, Including Field Background Content from the National Academy of Medicine
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a new technology assessment titled Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning in Drug Development. The technology assessment is in two parts – the first...
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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: The Hope, the Hype, the Promise, the Peril
A Special Publication from the National Academy of Medicine
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care offers unprecedented opportunities to improve patient and clinical team outcomes, reduce costs, and impact population health. While there have been a number of promising examples of AI applications in health care, it is imperative to proceed with caution or risk the potential of user disillusionment, another AI winter, or futher exacerbation of existing health- and technology-driven disparities.
AI is poised to make transformative and disruptive advances in health care, but it is prudent to balance the need for thoughtful, inclusive health care AI that plans for and actively manages and reduces potential unintended consequences, while not yielding to marketing hype and profit motives.
