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People have been trying to do this with expert systems, flow charts, and every other technology you can imagine, and have for decades. My wife is a pharmacist,
by mandevil 5y ago
People have been trying to do this with expert systems, flow charts, and every other technology you can imagine, and have for decades. My wife is a pharmacist, and they have software that is supposed to help them out with the bewildering number of medicines that are out there now. This seems like a trivial case, compared to radiology: (here in the US) the FDA publishes guidelines, so just take those and turn them into code, but she finds it "not that much of a help" that mostly gets an override. "Every once in a while I'll get an alert that is helpful, but most of them are not helpful, even a little bit." "Mostly false positives."
And that's for a lot easier case than radiology.
- Fomite 5y agoSimilarly, in infection control and antimicrobial stewardship, at this point pitching Yet Another Decision Support Tool will get you dirty looks.