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The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Nigam Shah: Artificial Intelligence transforms health care" Data analytics is revolutionizing health care – quietly, pervasively and in some surprising ways. In hospitals across the world, the unmet need for end-of-life palliative care threatens to overwhelm the few doctors who are equipped to adequately provide counseling that can help patients die on their own terms. There are just too many patients and too few doctors. Stanford’s Nigam Shah, an expert in medical informatics, says that such scenarios may soon become a thing of the past. Artificial intelligence, founded on tens-of-thousands of data points gathered from millions of patients, is flipping such age-old scripts to change how and with whom care conversations happen. It is but one example of the many ways AI is reshaping medicine, but these major advances are not without ethical concerns, Shah says. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 3, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.