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How algorithms could bring empathy back to medicine

Thomas R. Insel lauds a call for artificial intelligence to give doctors back the freedom to focus on their patients.
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  1. Thomas R. Insel

    1. Thomas R. Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and co-founder and president of Mindstrong Health in Palo Alto, California. From 2002 to 2015, he directed the US National Institute of Mental Health, and in 2015–17, he led the mental-health team at Verily in South San Francisco, California.

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Nature 567, 172-173 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00708-7

Competing Interests

T.R.I. is co-founder and president of Mindstrong Health and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of 7 Cups, both mental health tech companies that are mentioned in the book under review. The review author is also mentioned in the book in Chapter 8. The review author has been interviewed by Dr. Topol, the book author, but has no financial relationship or collaborative relationship with him. Neither Mindstrong Health nor 7 Cups will be influenced financially by this publication or this review.

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