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AI again? Expert systems are around to support medical doctors' decision making for 2+ decades. Studies demonstrated that doctors can use them to improve their
by stewbrew 10y ago
AI again? Expert systems are around to support medical doctors' decision making for 2+ decades. Studies demonstrated that doctors can use them to improve their decisions. Hardly anybody uses them in practice.
In real life, medical information often is stored as PDF or similar in the hospital information system. An interesting challenge for AI would be to encode these PDFs.
- ch4s3 10y agoYeah, I build a decision support product that uses an expert system/GOFAI. We parse PDFs, root around the EHR, read and analyze unstructured data, and so on. Parsing pdfs isn't that hard, unless you want to get things like EKG results, then you need to to OCR and and some analysis on the now potentially garbled text. We have some pretty active users with great results, but doctors are super busy. Its hard to get them to use anything that isn't in their standard tool kit or tie to payments. And, that understandable when you see 14 + patients a day. Getting into the workflow if the real challenge for AI in my view.