Healthcare providers might be the most underrated of all AI stakeholders. Never mind that close to half of 200 CEOs surveyed believe healthcare is the field in which AI is likely to make the most transformative contribution.

With a bit fewer than 7 million residents, Massachusetts ranks a middling 16th in population among the states. However, when it comes to internet searches for terms associated with emerging technologies per 100,000 residents, the Bay State is No. 1.

It was only last fall that Open AI’s ChatGPT thrust generative AI into the public psyche. Since then, many future-looking surveys have shown unease and trepidation competing hard for mindshare against hope and excitement.

American war veterans take their own lives at a rate much higher than the civilian average. Might AI help formulate some sort of solution? The week of Independence Day seems a fitting time to consider the possibility.

Echocardiography expert Roberto Lang, MD, says artificial intelligence will be so important to cardiac ultrasound in the near future that echo labs not using it will be inefficient and less accurate than labs that do use it.

The algorithm, developed using data from more than 7,00 chest pain patients, performed better than multiple techniques currently used to evaluate cardiac events. 

‘We need to design and build AI that helps healthcare professionals be better at what they do.’

Americans are somewhat more troubled than thrilled over AI’s mounting presence in modern life. But the collective outlook is a rich blend of both.