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THE CLINIC

SECTION 12

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONresearch1-3yconfidence / medium

Patient-Specific Treatment Sandboxes

Projection: multimodal models will first become valuable as treatment sandboxes, not autonomous prescribers. They can integrate records, imaging, wearables, and genomics to compare plausible pathways, surface evidence conflicts, and identify what new measurement would change the decision, leaving final judgment with qualified clinicians.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

NIH’s data strategy targets multimodal patient-specific research; the AI Index medicine chapter documents rapid model expansion alongside safety and ethics concerns.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science 2025–2030

    official strategy / dated 2025-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    AI Index Report 2026 — Medicine

    independent research report / dated 2026 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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