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Nature Biomedical Engineering (2025)Cite this article 449 Accesses 97 Altmetric Metrics details Decentralized yet coordinated networks of specialized artificial intelligence agents, multi-agent

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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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We thank R. Reddy for early review and discussion of the figures.

Saint Louis University, SSM Health, St. Louis, MO, USA

Michael Moritz

Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA

Eric Topol

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Correspondence to Pranav Rajpurkar.

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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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