Emergencies rarely happen in isolation. In such high-stress situations, doctors must simultaneously ask questions, review lab results, evaluate images, and make decisions. What could help: an AI assistant that takes over routine tasks for them. Researchers at Dresden University of Technology and Dresden University Hospital have now developed just such a system. They call it MIRA.
MIRA stands for “Medical Intelligence for Reasoning and Action.” The system is what’s known as an AI agent—a program that independently plans and executes tasks. Unlike many previous AI applications, MIRA operates directly within a simulated electronic health record.
In a simulated emergency room, the system processed more than 500 real patient cases. It asked questions, ordered tests, evaluated findings, and prepared treatment recommendations. MIRA not only reached the level of a physician but even outperformed the physician control group in diagnostic accuracy in some areas. The study was published in the journal *Nature*.
