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Why the race to deploy AI in healthcare often misses the first step

Why the future of care might begin in the delivery room

Two decades ago, sequencing the first human genome took over 13 years and cost $3 billion. Today, we can do it in under a day for a few hundred dollars. But here’s the catch: technology has moved forward, healthcare has not.

At 59, Dr. Emad George was facing the same health problems he’d long treated in others. He was stressed, overweight and inactive, until a conversation with his wife forced him to take stock.

For decades, we’ve treated genetic variants as if they come with fixed meaning. If a mutation is linked to disease, we assume it carries the same risk in every patient, everywhere.

After decades working in nephrology and transplant medicine, I realized I was in excellent health, and that I had the chance to help someone in a way I had long encouraged others to consider.