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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
It's also going to give an advantage to other countries around the world who are not going through this.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
Yeah, so this is really the reason why we're moving into this hyper-accelerated phase of discovery and transforming medicine.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
For one, we're seeing the discovery of new drugs.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
In fact, a drug for a very severe lung condition that we don't have a good treatment for, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
This is the first AI-discovered drug that is now
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
passed a phase two trial, so it's pretty far along and it looks great, discovered by AI.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
So that's one part of the story.
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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...
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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.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
And it's not just a note.
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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.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
I mean, all the things that occupy physicians.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
Exactly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned that.
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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan
And actually, you articulated it quite well.
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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.