Published on in Vol 25 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/52865, first published .
The Impact of Multimodal Large Language Models on Health Care’s Future

The Impact of Multimodal Large Language Models on Health Care’s Future

The Impact of Multimodal Large Language Models on Health Care’s Future

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