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Franziska Müller

AI in healthcare: from fighting epidemics to family doctors

Since May, teams on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been fighting the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus. Every day, so-called health workers knock on doors and offer advice. They record recoveries and deaths and refer people with suspicious symptoms to medical facilities.

The knowledge of these health workers, whose notebooks reflect the condition of entire communities, has been digitised, according to a report by the AI company Anthropic.

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