With artificial intelligence（AI）seemingly working its way into every technology out there, one area where it's considered particularly promising is in helping doctors. And already, AI is entering some doctors' offices.
Dr. Michael Mansour of Massachusetts General Hospital is an early user who's helped by a form of AI that could someday change the way doctors get information. When a patient comes in with unknown infection（感染）, Mansour turns to a computer program called UpToDate. It's a common tool, with more than 2 million users at 44,000 health care organizations in over 190 countries. Basically, it's Google for doctors — searching a huge database（数据库）of articles written by experts in the field, who are all getting information from the latest research.
Wolters Kluwer Health, the company that makes UpToDate, is trying to incorporate（整合）AI so that doctors can have more of a conversation with the database.
Some doctors hope to use AI to comb through a patient's medical history before an appointment（预约）. In some cases, Dr. June-Ho Kim, who directs a program on primary care at Ariadne Labs, says AI technology may also help primary care doctors look after patients without the help of specialists."It will free up specialists' time to focus on more difficult cases that they need to really home in on, rather than the ones that could be answered through a few questions," he says.
Dr. Marc Succi, who was a co-worker of Kim, says, "AI will finally prove to be a trusted medical tool. AI won't replace doctors, but doctors who use AI will replace doctors who do not. It will become very common just like designing a PPT on a computer. It's that level of leap."
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