Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA Heart disease kills more Americans than any other condition, about 700,000 per year. Yet despite decades of progress in treatment, approaches to prevention remain largely reactive. Here's a common pathway: wait for a patient to reach middle age, find their cholesterol numbers alarming, then act. New guidelines released Friday by the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and nine other medical societies propose updating that

Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA If you haven't noticed, there may be a new guest in your doctor's exam room. It's their artificial intelligence scribe. AI scribes are tools that listen to clinician patient conversations and automatically generate draft clinical notes. The promise to physicians is enormous: to tackle two problems at once, clerical burnout and administrative overload. For patients, the upside is simple: more attentive doctors who are less tethered to their keyboards. M

Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA The revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has just begun. Here are five promising areas where AI could make a big impact. 1. Speeding New Drug Development Drug discovery involves identifying a molecular target, designing a drug to affect it, then testing the drug for safety and efficacy. This involves screening large numbers of potential compounds in a lab. Once a drug is chosen, nine in 10 ultimately fail in human clinical trials.

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