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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. Similar things will happen with AI, without question.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients?