Healthcare automation at Mayo Clinic: Enhancing care [Video]

The Mayo Clinic is highly ranked in a long list of medical specialties, and it has embarked on a journey to use healthcare automation as a key resource in maintaining its world-renowned reputation for patient treatment and care.

Through technologies that encompass artificial intelligence and 3D printing, the clinic has embraced tech tools not merely for reading CAT scans, but also to improve the important relationship between physician and patient.

“As a practicing radiologist, reading hundreds of X-rays, CAT scans, and literally playing a game of finding Waldo in an attempt to diagnose the disease is a pretty daunting task,” said Anjali Bhagra, M.D., (pictured, right), physician lead and chair, Automation Core, at the Mayo Clinic. “Imagine now all the state-of-the-art automations that we can utilize and deploy. For the first time, I actually see that I can give that human touch to my patients because these technologies enable my diagnostic capability, they cut down my …