{"id":393057,"date":"2026-04-11T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393057\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:44:34","slug":"hospitals-consider-replacing-some-radiologists-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393057\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals consider replacing some radiologists with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest US public hospital system could soon replace some radiologists with AI. Radiology is ground zero for arguments over AI\u2019s employment impacts: The \u201cGodfather of AI\u201d Geoffrey Hinton said in 2016 that radiologists would soon be replaced. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/14\/technology\/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">In fact, the number of<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/14\/technology\/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">radiologists in the US grew<\/a>, as AI-human collaboration made them more effective and thus in demand. But perhaps, <a href=\"https:\/\/ceoworld.biz\/2026\/02\/27\/chess-lessons-for-the-ai-revolution\/\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">as with chess<\/a>, it takes sophisticated strategy to find the sweet spot where human input improves rather than hinders AI output. <\/p>\n<p>The CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals told a conference: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/radiologybusiness.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence\/ceo-americas-largest-public-hospital-system-says-hes-ready-replace-radiologists-ai\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI<\/a>\u201d if the regulatory environment permitted it, with major cost savings. AI is now \u201cbetter than human beings\u201d at spotting breast cancers, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest US public hospital system could soon replace some radiologists with AI. Radiology is ground zero for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-393057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}