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AI Is Making Health Care Safer in the Remote Amazon

Saul Zimet

created: June 13, 2025, 5:21 p.m. | updated: June 20, 2025, 3:10 p.m.

Andrade arrives at work at 8 a.m. to handle hundreds of prescriptions from free government clinics. He sometimes gets stuck for hours cross-checking drug databases to ensure nothing has been prescribed incorrectly by rural doctors. Sometimes he has to rush through prescriptions, and worries he will miss something dangerous. It has quadrupled his capacity to clear prescriptions, he told Rest of World. In the months since he started using the AI assistant, it has caught more than 50 errors, he said.”From Rest of World.

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