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TurdF3rgusonyesterday at 4:29 AM3 repliesview on HN

You just get 1M doctors to wear body cams for a year. Now you have a model that has thousands of times your experience with patients, encyclopedic knowledge of every ailment including ones that never present in your geography, read all the latest papers, etc..

I don't understand how you think this doesn't win vs a human doctor.


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n8henrieyesterday at 1:23 PM

How is training on bad data going to give you better results than the current system?

What kind of embedding helps the AI learn to do a physical exam?

Not to mention patient privacy, I can't even take a still photo of a patient in my current system (even with a hospital-owned camera).

davycroyesterday at 5:54 AM

This wouldn't solve the problem of diagnostic standards. Let's say you are a pediatrician and want to predict which kids with bronchiolitis will develop respiratory failure and need the ICU versus the ones who can go home. How do you determine from the body cams which kids had bronchiolitis in the first place? Bronchiolitis is a clinical diagnosis with symptoms that overlap with other respiratory illnesses such as asthma, bacterial pneumonia, croup, foreign body ingestion, etc.

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xaropeyesterday at 5:32 AM

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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