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Decentralized yet coordinated networks of specialized artificial intelligence agents, multi-agent systems for healthcare (MASH), that excel in performing tasks in an assistive or autonomous manner within specific clinical and operational domains are likely to become the next paradigm in medical artificial intelligence.
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Moritz, M., Topol, E. & Rajpurkar, P. Coordinated AI agents for advancing healthcare. Nat. Biomed. Eng (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-025-01363-2
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