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AI in Health Care: Will the Reality Match the Hype?

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The 14th annual Lundberg Institute Lecture features Robert Wachter of UCSF and his predictions about what advances artificial intelligence will make, and will not make, in health care.

Why has health care not undergone the kind of digital transformation that has completely remade industries ranging from retail to entertainment to travel? Wachter will discuss health care’s bumpy road to digital nirvana, and why, to paraphrase Hemingway, generative AI may lead to medicine’s “gradually, then suddenly” moment.

Join us for a preview of the ideas Dr. Wachter discusses in his latest book on AI and health care.

Organizer
George Hammond
Notes

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Mon, Nov 4 / 6:00 PM PST

The Commonwealth Club of California
110 The Embarcadero
Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States

Speakers
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George Lundberg

M.D., Editor in Chief, Cancer Commons; Editor at Large, Medscape; Executive Adviser, Cureus; Clinical Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University; President and Chair, The Lundberg Institute

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Robert Wachter

M.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine. UCSF School of Medicine; Author, The Digital Doctor

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In Conversation with George Hammond

Author, Conversations With Socrates

Format

5:30 p.m. doors open & check-in
6–7 p.m program
7 p.m. book signing
(all times Pacific Time)

COST

Members receive 30–50 percent discounts (not a member? Join)

In-person:
$22 
Online:
$5