CHICAGO — Clinicians are increasingly concerned that AI will replace them, but experts said that this focus should shift towards how to leverage AI to solve problems within health care, according to speakers at a panel discussion.
“There has been a knowledge explosion,” Nahid Y. Vidal, MD, FAAD, FACMS, division chair and associate professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said during the discussion at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery annual meeting.
In the 1950s, researchers estimated that the doubling time of medical knowledge was 50 years, according to Vidal. In the