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Dr. Eric Topol

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Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

So that's one part of the story.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

Another is that the way we practice in medicine is getting so much more efficient by just having our conversations made into synthetic notes that are far better than the notes that are in our...

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

This is freeing up two, three, four hours a day for clinicians, and it just keeps getting better.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And it's not just a note.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

That whole AI product is being used to order the tests and do the coding and for future appointments, prescriptions, preauthorizations.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

I mean, all the things that occupy physicians.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

Exactly.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

So that restoration of the patient-doctor relationship is starting to really take hold, which is great.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And of course, what I think is the biggest, most exciting frontier is using AI to extend our health span.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And this is something I think that up until now, we didn't realize how we have this truly remarkable opportunity.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And that's why I put so much work into this for agers thing, just because we're going to do this.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned that.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And actually, you articulated it quite well.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

The story here is that there was the largest ever randomized trial of AI in medicine.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

It was done in Sweden with over 100,000 women.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And the women who got randomly assigned with the mammogram to have AI plus the radiologist had 25% more cancers diagnosed.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And this should be part of every woman's mammogram assessment now in this country.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And of course, it isn't.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And we're far from that.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And then the other thing that you touched on is that from a normal mammogram,