[csee]

Countries with a GDP per capita of $5,000-$10,000 typically do have good medical care in private, but most of the population is excluded because of cost. If we give the doctors ML tools to increase bandwidth, then that should help the situation by increasing supply. Suppose we could 10x the bandwidth for routine scans. The cost should go down in private, public health capacity will go up, and overall more people should be able to access it.

[exdsq]

The issue is training people to use the machines and keeping them running, not even the doctors themselves.

[csee]

That's true, but I don't see that as necessarily decisive. If 1 doctor and 1 engineer can achieve the bandwidth of 10 (more?) doctors on some specific scan, we're still talking about less intellectual capital and less training requirements overall.

Also I don't think we're talking about special hardware here. Couldn't we just have a software package produced by someone (university, company in a wealthier country) that is used by docs everywhere? Could be done without the need of a dedicated local engineer? Perhaps the WHO could approve certain software packages for universal use in very specific cases.