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Health care is heavily regulated. But can the FDA effectively regulate AI in health care?It's episode three of On Point's series “Smarter health."The best long-form audio series from WBUR, Boston's NPR, all in one feed.

The final episode of On Point's series Smarter health gets up close with the people working and developing AI technology, and the patients receiving AI care. How can this technology thrive in our complex and broken health care system?The best long-form audio series from WBUR, Boston's NPR, all in one feed.

American health care is complex. Expensive. Hard to access.Could artificial intelligence change that?In the first episode of On Point's series Smarter health, hear all about the potential of AI in health care — from predicting patient risk, to diagnostics, to just helping physicians make better decisions.The best long-form audio series from WBUR, Boston's NPR, all in one feed.

There is a sophisticated computer model that can estimate a patient's chance of dying in the next year. It's being used at a Stanford hospital to encourage important end of life care conversations and decisions.But would you want to know if an algorithm predicted when you might die?Ethics and AI. It's episode II of On Point's special series Smarter health.The best long-form audio series from...