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AI in health care could save lives and money − but change won’t happen overnight

  • Written by Turgay Ayer, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageAI will help human physicians by analyzing patient data prior to surgery.Boy_Anupong/Moment via Getty Images

Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from your health records, genetic...

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