{
  "id": 527039,
  "title": "Towards Expert-level Medical AI for Real-time Video Consultations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/towards-expert-level-medical-ai-for-real-time-video-consultations",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-10T17:19:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09861v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues. While text-based AI has shown promise, it discards essential perceptual dimensions and limits patients who cannot articulate symptoms in writing. Early efforts to extend medical AI to audio-visual interaction have demonstrated…",
  "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."
}