Teaching AI to Read Patient Histories
Jun 04, 2026•21 min
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Episode description
Every patient has a story, but in modern health care that story is buried across thousands of notes, lab results, and fragmented records. Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD, of Stanford University Department of Medicine joins JAMA Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, to explore how researchers are building AI systems that can read and understand a patient's full medical history in seconds. Related Content:
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