Itzel Fer

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A JAMA Perspective this week asked:

Could autonomous AI eventually provide better medical care than physicians using AI?

Medicine is inherently human and messy. It is uncertainty, context, patient preferences, judgment, and decisions that are rarely black and white.
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There is so much happening in medical AI right now, but I keep coming back to the same question:

How do we use these tools in a way that actually makes care better?

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Can AI improve blood smear analysis?

A multicenter study of 1,570 blood smears found that AI-assisted review improved classification and reduced review time.

APL screening sensitivity: 100% vs 96%
Schistocyte sensitivity: 89.9% vs 82.7%
Review time: 328 vs 852 sec

The system supported lab professionals rather than replacing them.

Where could AI-assisted tools be most useful in laboratory medicine?

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Can AI coaching match the human experience?

A Johns Hopkins study compared AI-led diabetes prevention with human coaching in 368 adults.

AI helped people start sooner: 11 vs 26 days.

But human coaching scored higher for satisfaction and acceptability, and 46.5% of the AI group said they would have preferred a human coach.

Faster access does not always mean a better experience.

Would you choose AI if it helped you start sooner?

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@EricTopol @NatureMedicine @drethangoh This is excellent. Open-sourcing the code and development sets to move forward faster. It will be very interesting to see how MAST performs across different clinical settings and patient populations.

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What is medical AI superintelligence? How will we know if/when it exists? Our essay @NatureMedicine, led by @drethangoh
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Clinicians using AI were more likely to record an appropriate diagnosis, write a more complete note, and document an appropriate treatment plan.

We need more studies like this: AI tested in real clinical workflows, not only on benchmarks.

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What happens when an LLM is tested in real primary care?

A Nature Medicine trial tested a GPT-4o clinical decision support tool across 16 facilities in Kenya, involving 103 clinical officers and 9,347 patients.

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Patient satisfaction and consultation time were also similar.

No serious adverse events were judged to be related to the AI tool.

The clearest benefit was documentation.

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Also in this week’s issue:

• @Updock FDA clearance for between-visit care • @claudeai Science from Anthropic • 3 in 10 adults using social media or AI for health info • Tools: @VisualDx , @PearlHealth_ , and @Shortwave
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Medical AI is moving closer to patient care.

This week, I covered 2 studies:

1️⃣ Strong medical AI scores can hide fragile reasoning.

2️⃣ In a real-world primary care trial, LLMs support improved documentation quality.

AI may help clinical workflows. But we still need evidence that it improves outcomes that matter to patients.

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❓What happens when AI moves from answering clinical questions to taking clinical steps?

That question came up in this week’s AIMedily.

I covered two studies that show where medical AI may be heading.

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This week’s AIMedily also includes:

• 3 AI tools
• Health scanner news
• WHO guidance on AI and evidence-informed policy
• OpenAI and rare genetic disease diagnosis
• Philips Future Health Index 2026
• 6 research papers from NEJM AI, Nature, JMIR, and JAMA