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I think this article addresses the half the medical landscape where the problems are hard and computers are worse than humans at solving them. The other half i
by treis 8y ago
I think this article addresses the half the medical landscape where the problems are hard and computers are worse than humans at solving them. The other half is where the problems are "easy". Practices where Doctors spend ~5 minutes with each patient doing physicals and treating minor ailments. In that half doctors can already easily handle the problems so there's no real value add for a computer.
It would take a paradigm shift before AI became useful. Going to watson.com and getting a prescription for antibiotics would be useful and technically feasible. So would augmenting lower trained people to be able to deliver more care. Neither are possible legally and it's not exactly a field you can get away with disregarding the law.