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If there is no meaningful statistical information in medical records, then we should stop keeping them? By hypothesis a doctor who opens a medical record can't
by ltbarcly3 5y ago
If there is no meaningful statistical information in medical records, then we should stop keeping them? By hypothesis a doctor who opens a medical record can't gain any meaningful information from it for the same reasons listed in the article. I think this is sufficient to demonstrate the article is incorrect, there is significant information in medical records, and therefore it will be possible to train a model which can reproduce missing information to some degree.
- yold__ 5y agoBecause there is, and the person who wrote the original article has no domain experience. Fixing data sucks and it requires judgement. Public health and medical researchers derive an enormous amount of research benefit from anonymized health records. Medicare publishes a large dataset.