How AI Is Changing The Way Doctors Think w/ Dr. Bapu Jena, Harvard Medical School

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More than 80% of internists are already using AI tools in clinical practice, and adoption is accelerating faster than any healthcare technology in recent times. The question is no longer whether doctors will use AI, but whether it will actually give them more time to do what drew them to medicine in the first place.

Dr. Bapu Jena, physician and health economist at Harvard Medical School, joins host John Driscoll to discuss how AI is reshaping clinical decision-making, and why the scarcest resource in healthcare has never been money or technology, but time at the bedside.

🎙️⚕️ABOUT DR. BAPU JENA
Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. Dr. Jena graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his MD and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, which explores the “hidden side of health care.”

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