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Nat Med2026September 14, 2026Journal Article

Prospective evidence for conversational medical AI is hard, but non-negotiable.

Mike Schaekermann1, Anil Palepu2, Adam Rodman3,4, Ami Parekh5, Ethan Goh2,6,7, Shekoofeh Azizi8, Yun Liu2, Sunny Virmani2, Christina Chen2, Dale R Webster2, Joëlle Barral8, Avinatan Hassidim2, Yossi Matias2, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen9
1Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA. mikeshake@google.com.
2Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA.
3Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
4Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
5Included Health, San Francisco, CA, USA.
6Division of Computational Medicine, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
7Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
8Google DeepMind, Mountain View, CA, USA.
9Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA. cameronchen@google.com.
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