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Perhaps in the US where medicine and healthcare are hugely hugely expensive with loads of vested interests and profiteering and fingers-in-pies from every side

Perhaps in the US where medicine and healthcare are hugely hugely expensive with loads of vested interests and profiteering and fingers-in-pies from every side of the table, sure. But everywhere else in the developed world that has universal and free healthcare, I can imagine a lot of traction for AI from governments looking to make their health service more efficient and therefore cheaper (plus better for the patient too in terms of shorter wait times etc). DeepMind has been doing a load of work with the NHS, Royal Free Foundation, Moorfields for instance (although there have been some data protection issues there, but I suspect they are surmountable)

jdbc 2y ago
No one need/should wait for the US govt or the structurally exploitative private sector to reduce prices. The US has concocted huge myths about why prices cannot fall no matter what tech or productivity gains happen. Its becomes like religious dogma. Ppl are already flying overseas in the tens of thousands for medical tourism. All Mexico has to do is set up hospitals along the border so people arent flying elsewhere. This is what will happen in the US. The US has no hope of changing by itself.
bonoboTP 2y ago
I agree. These developments will be first deployed in countries like India, Mexico, China. If you're an entrepreneur aiming at making a difference through medical AI, it's probably best to focus on places where they honestly want and need efficiency, instead of just talking about it.
alephnerd 2y ago
> Perhaps in the US Medical Systems in countries like the UK [0], Australia [1], and Germany [2] all leverage teleradiology outsourcing at scale, and have done this for decades [0] - https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/B0030-Operational-governance-guide-April-2021.pdf https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/B0030-... [1] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-9485.13591 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-9485.13... [2] - https://www.healthcarebusinessinternational.com/german-hospital-financial-crisis-could-increase-imaging-radiology-outsourcing/ https://www.healthcarebusinessinternational.com/german-hospi...

jdbc 2y ago

No one need/should wait for the US govt or the structurally exploitative private sector to reduce prices. The US has concocted huge myths about why prices cannot fall no matter what tech or productivity gains happen. Its becomes like religious dogma. Ppl are already flying overseas in the tens of thousands for medical tourism. All Mexico has to do is set up hospitals along the border so people arent flying elsewhere. This is what will happen in the US. The US has no hope of changing by itself.

bonoboTP 2y ago

I agree. These developments will be first deployed in countries like India, Mexico, China. If you're an entrepreneur aiming at making a difference through medical AI, it's probably best to focus on places where they honestly want and need efficiency, instead of just talking about it.

alephnerd 2y ago

> Perhaps in the US Medical Systems in countries like the UK [0], Australia [1], and Germany [2] all leverage teleradiology outsourcing at scale, and have done this for decades [0] - https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/B0030-Operational-governance-guide-April-2021.pdf https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/B0030-... [1] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-9485.13591 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-9485.13... [2] - https://www.healthcarebusinessinternational.com/german-hospital-financial-crisis-could-increase-imaging-radiology-outsourcing/ https://www.healthcarebusinessinternational.com/german-hospi...