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by afthonos 499 days ago
I think this is really cool tech, but that’s not at all the takeaway from this. $100,000 and 30 hospital visits are what created the data for the tool to figure out the diagnosis. The question to ask to make your point relevant is what fragment of that data was necessary, keeping in mind that you can’t change the order, because the patient themselves went in that order.
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The tool should probably suggest which clinical tests should be conducted next.
That will be a real deal. Recommend the exact medical services you need. It can potentially optimize the medical supply chain, reducing cost and waiting time for everyone.
Honestly, as somebody fighting... something? I wish this was the case already. I don't know what's wrong with me. My first contact doctor has shared some things I can try, but nobody knows if they will do anything + it takes a shit ton of time (and if I don't want to wait then money as well). It's truly a lose-lose scenario how the current Polish medical system works and it's even worse knowing it's still better than, for example, the American one.
No one remembers Expert Systems which were supposed to do this before but failed spectacularly due to the complexity of the issues, some of which were political and contractual, and the requirement of actual intelligence to resolve them.