The Empowerment of Consumers for Health: AI Accelerates a Long-Standing Trend
The conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on health care has sparked wide-ranging debate. Although advances in the 2010s regarding AI for image recognition (eg, in radiography) prompted bold predictions around the potential replacement of physicians,1 the coverage in medical journals, including this one, has largely centered around AI as a tool supporting the continued central role of physicians in health care.2,3
