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What you call a complicated system is trivially easy compared to the complexity of the human body. The truth of the matter is that humans alone are simply not g
by DasIch 10y ago
What you call a complicated system is trivially easy compared to the complexity of the human body. The truth of the matter is that humans alone are simply not good at this. There is way too much information that needs to be considered both about the individual patient as well as medical knowledge of diseases.
What is necessary is to force the medical community to build up better tools for medical diagnostics and the storage and exchange of patient health information.
- nradov 10y agoClinical systems interoperability has improved a lot in the past few years. But decision support and automated diagnostic tools (like IBM Watson) are still constrained by lack of complete and accurate patient symptom data. It takes a lot of time and expertise to correctly observe symptoms and enter them in a way that computers can understand. I don't think that automated diagnostics will be widely used until computer vision, pattern recognition, and natural language processing advance far beyond the current state of the art.