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I tend to agree about the accuracy of diagnoses when the data is good. Here's the 'but': I think my main reason for distrusting computer diagnosis is that com

by zarify 13y ago

I tend to agree about the accuracy of diagnoses when the data is good. Here's the 'but': I think my main reason for distrusting computer diagnosis is that computers are still pretty terrible at figuring out what we are telling them, and patients are also pretty terrible at describing what symptoms they're suffering from. It's all very well to aim a camera at some sort of visible symptom, but what happens when there's nothing there to match against a library of exemplars? (For comedic value, the data entry panel from the hospital in Idiocracy: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lardbiscuit/pix/idiothospital.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/lardbiscuit/pix/idiothospital.jpg )

EGreg 13y ago
Of course we will still need a doctor to perform the tests. But they'll be relying much more on the apps to suggest to them what tests to perform next. The patients won't be telling the computer anything, esp the unconscious patients, and photos won't be analyzed by computers. Idiocracy was a cool movie :)
- Dewie 13y ago
  I think I read a short snippet about introducing a new IT system in a doctors office. The doctors were against having to do things in a new way due to the new system, even though it probably was more efficient. I think the reason or theory behind their reluctance was that it would automate some of their regular duties. I can imagine that many doctors will not feel kindly about working with a system whose purpose is to automate (some) of their work, and which gets smarter and more independent the more the doctor works with it.
- zarify 13y ago
  To be flippant it's starting to sound like you're describing the canned question list in a call center :) The computer analysis of photos was actually something I thought was quite positive. I believe they've been doing this for skin cancer for a while (based on what my mother, who worked in a skin clinic for a few years described to me, before she escaped to do GP work again).

by zarify 13y ago

EGreg 13y ago

Of course we will still need a doctor to perform the tests. But they'll be relying much more on the apps to suggest to them what tests to perform next. The patients won't be telling the computer anything, esp the unconscious patients, and photos won't be analyzed by computers. Idiocracy was a cool movie :)

Dewie 13y ago
I think I read a short snippet about introducing a new IT system in a doctors office. The doctors were against having to do things in a new way due to the new system, even though it probably was more efficient. I think the reason or theory behind their reluctance was that it would automate some of their regular duties. I can imagine that many doctors will not feel kindly about working with a system whose purpose is to automate (some) of their work, and which gets smarter and more independent the more the doctor works with it.
zarify 13y ago
To be flippant it's starting to sound like you're describing the canned question list in a call center :) The computer analysis of photos was actually something I thought was quite positive. I believe they've been doing this for skin cancer for a while (based on what my mother, who worked in a skin clinic for a few years described to me, before she escaped to do GP work again).