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> But of course, not having a specialist “looking over the shoulder,” as Abràmoff puts it, raises the question of who will be responsible when the diagnosis is
by denzil_correa 9y ago
> But of course, not having a specialist “looking over the shoulder,” as Abràmoff puts it, raises the question of who will be responsible when the diagnosis is wrong
Ultimately, accountability and transparency will be the Achilles heel.
- monkeynotes 9y agoUltimately it has to be the company providing the technology that is liable, but I bet you they have a terms of use clause that puts the responsibility on the clinics using the technology.
- dgacmu 9y agoThe more important question is what they're actually held to. In the case of a diagnostic test like this, the most reasonable thing is to hold them to the false negative and false positive rates that they say the product has. No real-world diagnostic test is perfect. Instead, we design the systems around the tests to accommodate the fact that they do have errors. As long as the device manufacturer is correct about their probabilities of errors, then we can incorporate them into a system that works better than what we had before. Or we can know that we cannot use them in a useful way, and just ignore it.