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Chinese Company Releases a Medical Assistant Chatbot

While medical assistants are an indispensable part of Western medicine, this appears to not be the case in China. China’s largest search engine, Baidu, announced in October 2016 that it had produced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. The company named its …

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The Screener, the Prepper, and the Swabber: Top 3 Roles for MAs at Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing Sites

The COVID-19 pandemic has gone through a strange pattern in the United States, surging to crisis levels in major urban centers like New York and New Orleans, then subsiding briefly before coming back hard and strong in more rural states like Alabama and Arizona. It’s a strong message that the virus is likely to be a persistent, whack-a-mole problem that’s going to rear its head the moment we relax our grip on it. And through it all, medical assistants will remain on the front lines of that battle around the country.

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Chinese Company Releases a Medical Assistant Chatbot

While medical assistants are an indispensable part of Western medicine, this appears to not be the case in China. China’s largest search engine, Baidu, announced in October 2016 that it had produced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. The company named its …

Medical Assistant Recognition Week Celebrated

Medical Assistant Recognition Week (MARWeek), which takes place each year in the third full week of October, was developed to honor the efforts of thousands of medical assistants across the United States. It is endorsed by the American Association of …