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by easytigerm 544 days ago
The OP will be pleased to know that they’re not the first person to think of this idea. Searching for “computable clinical guidelines” will unearth a wealth of academic literature on the subject. A reasonable starting point would be this paper [1]. Indeed people have been trying since the 70s, most notably with the famous MYCIN expert system. [2]

As people have alluded to and the history of MYCIN shows, there’s a lot more subtlety to the problem than appears on the surface, with a whole bunch of technical, psychological, sociological and economic factors interacting. This is why cancer guidelines are stuck in PDFs.

Still, none of that should inhibit exploration. After all, just because previous generations couldn’t solve a problem doesn’t mean that it can’t be solved.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10582221/

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2020/04/27/12-ai-miles...

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To the author:

The above is a high quality comment with worthy areas to study.

Additionally I would draw your attention to NCCN’s “Developer API” which is not interesting technologically but how it reflects the IP landscape.

https://www.nccn.org/developer-api