What will MSK ultrasound and musculoskeletal medicine look like in 10 years? Ryan Martin and Colin Rigney make their predictions. They start with AI assisted diagnosis: why AI will make smart clinicians smarter and expose the ones who use it poorly, why you should not rely on it 100 percent yet, and who takes the liability when an algorithm reads the image. Then robotic blood draws and needle guidance, what could replace today's injections, and why regenerative medicine will be market driven. On point of care, Colin makes the case that AI can already take a history more consistently than a human and that one appointment should send a patient home with all the answers, while Ryan pictures an AI guided ultrasound delivered to the patient's door. They close on the independent MSK clinic: same day diagnosis and treatment becoming the standard, and why corporate healthcare and the high-touch independent practice can both grow. These are the questions the speakers at the AMSKU Annual Global Summit '26 will answer on 5 December.
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What this episode covers:
- AI assisted diagnosis in MSK ultrasound: will AI take my job?
- Why AI will make smart clinicians smarter, and expose the rest
- Will a robot replace the sonographer?
- AI guided image acquisition: a learning tool, not something to rely on 100 percent
- Who takes the liability for an AI read: the clinician or the developer?
- More progress in the next 10 years than in the last 200
- Robotic blood draws, needle guidance and what could replace today's injections
- Regenerative medicine and a market driven future
- The future of point of care: one appointment, all the answers
- AI taking the patient history, and an ultrasound delivered to your door
- Same day diagnosis and treatment as the standard for the independent MSK clinic
- Corporate healthcare vs the independent practice: two things can be true
- Coming up on the podcast: Matthew Gillogly, Marc Pietropaoli and Ariana DeMers
- Voices from the 2025 AMSKU Annual Global Summit
Links mentioned in this episode:
- AMSKU Annual Global Summit '26, Saturday 5 December 2026, live and online: see the speakers and their predictions for the next decade, register, or watch the playback from last year's summit
- Questions, comments or a prediction of your own? Reach us
- Every AMSKU MSK ultrasound course
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Chapters:
0:00 This week on From Probe to Practice
0:23 From Probe to Practice
0:38 Episode 9: predictions for the next 10 years
1:44 Robotic blood draws and AI needle guidance
2:58 Will AI take my job? AI assisted diagnosis
4:11 AI will make smart people smarter
5:33 Will a robot replace the sonographer?
6:12 Don't rely on AI 100 percent in image acquisition
6:51 Who takes the liability for an AI read?
7:15 More progress in 10 years than the last 200
7:56 Predictions from the Global Summit speakers
8:24 What will replace today's injections?
9:14 If a robot can draw blood
9:46 Regenerative medicine: a market driven future
12:09 The future of point of care
12:48 One appointment, all the answers
13:54 An AI guided ultrasound delivered to your door
15:05 At scale, but is that what patients want?
15:46 Amazon or the human touch?
17:06 Will patients leave the house for care in 10 years?
17:22 The independent MSK clinic in 10 years
18:53 Same day diagnosis and treatment as the standard
20:33 Corporate healthcare vs the independent practice
21:08 Two things can be true
22:21 The next decade is in your hands
24:11 Coming up on the podcast
24:44 summit.amsku.com: speakers from six continents
27:21 Voices from the 2025 AMSKU Annual Global Summit
