{
  "id": 12993159,
  "title": "How health care can benefit from AI, without costing the world",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/how-health-care-can-benefit-from-ai-without-costing-the-world",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-09T00:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-health-benefit-ai-world.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized healthcare, being applied in almost every aspect, from disease detection to AI-powered digital clinics. The technology is lauded for efficiency, which contributes to sustainability but raises concerns about its environmental cost. A new paper titled \"Green Artificial Intelligence in Health Applications\" published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine argues that the environmental impact of AI should be treated as equally important as privacy, bias, fairness, transparency, and other concerns. Alok Mishra, a professor at NTNU, advocates for \"Green AI\" which would involve assessing the environmental impact of AI applications throughout their life cycle, from manufacturing to recycling. Despite the potential environmental consequences, AI has proven to be highly beneficial in healthcare, aiding medical professionals with analysis, diagnostics, treatment planning, drug discovery, hospital management, and telemedicine. While environmental impact is not actively discussed when introducing AI technology, health professionals are generally optimistic about the technology's potential benefits for patient care.",
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence (AI) has had a transformative effect on health care. The technology has been tested and applied in almost every area, from disease diagnostics to AI-powered digital clinics.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}