Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Monday Links
- The main effect of affirmative action: discrimination against Asians.
- Trump announces in deals with nine companies to cut prices on drugs that treat Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis B and C, HIV and certain cancers.
- Study: Most psychiatric disorders are not genetically separate diseases. Instead, they share a large amount of the same genetic risk, which clusters into a small number of underlying genetic “families.”
- Why health care needs AI: Since the turn of the century, hospital prices are up 271%; computer software is down 73.3%.
- Why estimates of a declining fertility rate might be wrong.
- A decade ago, about 40 artificial intelligence systems were approved for clinical use. Today, more than 1,200 are FDA-approved.
Friday Links
- Mamdani has one good idea for New York City.
- Michael Cannon: The Minnesota fraud case is not usual.
- Obstacle to AI doctoring: there are no CPT codes. Another problem: It is explicitly illegal in all 50 states for AI to prescribe, treat, diagnose, and refer without an appropriate medical license.
- Reverse Flynn effect: IQ scores have been falling.
- The federal (Obamacare) exchange approved subsidized health insurance for 23 of 24 fictitious applications submitted by GAO.
- From 2018 to 2023, the number of direct primary care and concierge practice sites grew by 83.1 percent and the number of clinicians participating in them by 78.4 percent.
Internet Medicine is Not Always a Good Thing
…there is a darker side to social media medicine, where social media charlatans convince (mostly young, impressionable women) to start drug therapies for conditions they do not have. Examples of this include antidepressants for normal stress and beta blockers for social anxiety. Then there are the highly exaggerated, sensationalized videos. TikTok, the Chinese owned social media website became the cesspool of user-created, inferior quality content.