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Funny enough this is almost a canonical example of data leakage and the incorrect (or extremely extrapolated) assertions that AI can solve what seems like majo
by bfeynman 2y ago
Funny enough this is almost a canonical example of data leakage and the incorrect (or extremely extrapolated) assertions that AI can solve what seems like majorly important and valuable tasks. There are 2 very pertinent observations needed.
1. The state of the healthcare system, assuming this is the US, care is based on triage and constantly requires a number of hoops to go through to get deeper analysis or specialists, an emergent property of not having value based care. They do this to save costs while ensuring you are not going to die.
2. They are using and feeding in data from the doctors visits, which means that AI is not really providing a diagnosis in a way that can replace anything necessarily. The fact there are many visits would help a flow chart decision rule out/in possibilities.
You see a lot of this in AI hoopla and even in some of the industry papers where AI is relying on data that only becomes available because of a doctor's orders, so you are not "replacing" it per se.
If anything this demonstrates that value based care would provide better experience and outcomes for people with hard to diagnose conditions.