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Short Run: 'Smarter health: Episode II'

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Find a full transcript of the episode here.


There is a sophisticated computer model that can estimate a patient's chance of dying in the next year. It's being used at a Stanford hospital to encourage important end of life care conversations and decisions.

But would you want to know if an algorithm predicted when you might die?

Ethics and AI. It's episode II of On Point's special series Smarter health.


This series is supported in part by Vertex, The Science of Possibility.

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Dorey Scheimer Senior Editor, On Point

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