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by xarope 43 days ago
In healthcare, HIPAA/GDPR equivalent would block this. Let's be realistic in our discussion; this is not the same as google buying up a library worth of books, scanning and destroying them
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There are other countries, and the patients in them all have similar data
Other countries actually don't necessarily have a similar mix of ailments, median patient appearance and style of communication or even recommended course of action and most of the ones with more sophisticated medical care also have strict medical privacy laws. If you're genuinely unaware of this, I'm not sure you're in a position to be making "one year with a camera, how hard can it be" arguments...

(Where AI is likely to actually excel in medicine is parsing datasets that are much easier to do context free number crunching on than ER rooms, some of which physicians don't even have access to ...)

I think you're being silly if you think the amount of money at stake here, not the mention the health of billions of people is going to be stymied by privacy laws.
Similar data?!

We have wildly heterogeneous data just within the US!

And again, how exactly is this interface going to work? How does the AI determine how hard to press on an abdomen, and where, and how does it press there once it has that information?