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Why doctor? It's the most expensive part of your healthcare. But it can be trainee/researcher/AI. Which could be absolutely out of expensive healthcare system.
by batter 9y ago
Why doctor? It's the most expensive part of your healthcare. But it can be trainee/researcher/AI. Which could be absolutely out of expensive healthcare system. Service which you could buy for additional cost from company which has good guess/prediction ratio based on input parameters from doctor. Service which could be in any part of the world.
- arkades 9y agoWhat? The doctor’s visit is the cheapest part of healthcare. Procedures cost far more, and pharm far more again. Perhaps you’re outside of the US, though I can’t think of a country where this isn’t true.
- jessaustin 9y agoDon't forget diagnostic scans and tests. Those are quite expensive. However GP is proposing a service that doesn't actually exist now: paying a medical expert to spend a lot of time considering a challenging case. It would have obvious benefits, so we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand just because it would be too cheap.
- nitrogen 9y agoThere was a now-defunct attempt at this called MetaMed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed I'm curious if any others have succeeded.
- feiofh398r39rty 9y agoIt is very informative to read the founder's attempt to explain why MetaMed failed: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-symbolic-representation-of-the-thing/ https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-sy...
- inetsee 9y agoI have often thought that the Freestyle Chess model (a variation of Advanced Chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess ) could be applied to medical diagnosis. Create a team consisting of one or more human doctors with a medical diagnostic AI. From the article it sounds to me that a lot of the research could have been done by an AI, with the human doctors making the final decision on the "best" diagnosis.
- jdietrich 9y agoThe technical term is "clinical decision support system". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_decision_support_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_decision_support_syst...