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It's interesting that Watson appears to rely so much on processing text, which runs into so many difficulties. It would be helpful if (for a given disease) ever
by arikrak 9y ago
It's interesting that Watson appears to rely so much on processing text, which runs into so many difficulties. It would be helpful if (for a given disease) every patient's medical records were tracked as structured data. Machine learning would then be able to find patterns of diagnosis much more easily.
(I guess companies like Flatiron Health are working in that direction.)
- carlmr 9y agoBut then all the NoSQL people working on data have to learn SQL ;).
- equalunique 9y agoFunny that you mention NoSQL. MUMPS, the original 1960s database system designed for medical data was NoSQL: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkmg3/meet-mumps-the-archaic-health-care-programming-language-that-predicted-big-data-2 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkmg3/meet-mumps...
- gipp 9y agohttps://qz.com/1061322/doctors-are-burning-out-because-electronic-medical-records-are-broken/ https://qz.com/1061322/doctors-are-burning-out-because-elect...
- ska 9y agoPeople have been working on this for 30 years, and the mess keeps getting worse. A significant amount of that mess has been created by engineers trying to solve the wrong problems, or the wrong parts of them.