Shadow AI: When Doctors, Patients and Robots Move Faster Than the System
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The episode discusses the rapid adoption of AI technologies in healthcare, highlighting various innovations and their implications for clinicians and patients.
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise reports in from a heatwave in the French Alps while George braces for a Sydney winter — before the pair work through five stories on a single throughline: AI adoption by clinicians and patients is racing ahead of the institutions meant to govern it. They discuss why more than half of UK GPs are now using generative AI in clinical practice, how an AI system analysing a routine ECG helped save a patient's life, the emergence of agentic AI capable of managing clinical workflows, a robotic platform accelerating cancer drug discovery, and an Australian-developed wearable "stethoscope sticker" designed to continuously monitor heart and lung sounds. Resources : Half of UK GPs Now Use AI Blease et al Link AI Flagged a Failing Heart Hartman et al Nature Link Agentic AI Comes to Medicine Topol, Ground Truths Link AIME , Lievin et al Nature Link MIRA , Ferber et al Nature Link UpDoc FDA-clearance announcement — PRNewswire Link Shrestha, Innolitics Link Persistern Cells , Sun et al., ScienceAdvances Link The "Stethoscope Sticker" Dang et al., Link Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of…
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