I have never had another person in the exam room with my doctor and me during a physician visit after childhood. With the introduction of electronic medical records many people complained there was hardly even a doctor in the room listening to them. Health insurers, and public health advocates, all want a ton of documentation from each physician visit. Increasingly there is another party eavesdropping on your doctor’s visit. An artificial intelligence (AI) interface passively recording and processing the visit discussion and turning the conversation into a coherent medical record.
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
AI Can Reduce Medication Errors
Medical errors and medical failures do not often result from simple mistakes. Most are the result of a series of failures that lead to serious errors. By the way, the same is true of plane crashes. A simple technical fix is unlikely to solve the problem of incorrect medication errors. A comprehensive system of risk analysis from the pharmacy to the hospital floor or operating room will be necessary to eliminate medication errors.
Is the Doctor-Patient Relationship Declining?
Today about three-quarters of physicians have a boss. They are employees of hospitals, private equity-owed group practices, and even work for retail clinics. The trust doctors and patients may have shared in 1963 is eroding due to insurance coverage, time constraints and even perverse medical norms.
Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors in 10 Years
Physicians used to be patients’ primary source of health information. Nowadays, people look up diseases and conditions online, learning more in a few minutes than their doctors would ever have time to explain. More than half of Americans (58.5%) used the Internet to look up heath information in 2022. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make diagnosis even easier. Microsoft founder, Bill Gates even thinks AI will be able to replace your doctor in 10 years.
Read more at:
- People: Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors, Teachers in Next 10 Years
- Harvard Magazine: Bill Gates on AI and Innovation