Digitizing the outbreak

Brady Page & Eric J Topol - A long-envisaged goal of outbreak response is a system that capitalises on the availability of massive amounts of…
Machines and empathy in medicine

Eric J Topol - The human bond between patient and clinician is fundamental. But the patient–doctor relationship is affected by the limited time allotted for…

Eric TopolOctober 21, 2023
As artificial intelligence goes multimodal, medical applications multiply

Machines don’t have eyes, but you wouldn’t know that if you followed the progression of deep learning models for accurate interpretation of medical images, such as…

Eric TopolSeptember 20, 2023
Rebooting cancer screening with artificial intelligence

Scott J Adams & Eric J Topol - Cancer screening typically relies on a reductionist, all-comer population approach, with screening eligibility based predominantly on age.…

Eric TopolAugust 5, 2023
Bob Wachter’s Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine

The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list. Listen to the podcast via…

Eric TopolJuly 25, 2023
The imperative for regulatory oversight of large language models (or generative AI) in healthcare

Betalan Meskó & Eric Topol - Abstract The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to the development of sophisticated large language models (LLMs)…

Eric TopolJuly 6, 2023
AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It’s Serious

Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride. Listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts or Medscape.

Eric TopolJune 27, 2023
Upending the model of AI adoption

Saurabh Jha & Eric Topol - In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer of deep learning artificial intelligence (AI), predicted radiologists’ extinction within 5 years. 7…

Eric TopolJune 10, 2023
Tragedy and Hope Wrapped in a Medical Mystery: Abraham Verghese and ‘The Covenant of Water’

Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel. Listen to…

Eric TopolJune 7, 2023