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New AI health predictor tool

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute say they have created an artificial intelligence tool that can comb people’s electronic health records and predict the likelihood of them developing hundreds of diseases, including heart disease and cancers.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks to Dr. Sarah Urbut.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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