Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Tuesday Links
- Can AI help DOGE eliminate thousands of regulations?
- “In an aging world, government may see medically aided death as a cost saver.”
- M.D. vs. D.O. Does it matter? (NYT)
- “In 2020, 66% of U.S. entitlement spending went to the 17% of the population aged 65 and older. That age cohort contributed only 11% of U.S. direct tax revenues.”
- Pet care costs are rising almost as fast as child care.
Tuesday Links
- Do tariffs disproportionately hurt low-income households? Apparently not.
- “computer algorithms [will] soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walk.”
- Approximately 67 percent of American women are considered “plus-size.”
- Organ transplants: (NYT)
A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone. That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive…..
Fifty-five medical workers in 19 states told The Times they had witnessed at least one disturbing case of donation after circulatory death. Workers in several states said they had seen coordinators persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.
Health Care AI Has Potential, but Faces Obstacles
Training AI requires consuming copious amounts of data. Consume bad data and the output will be wrong. In computer science this is called garbage in / garbage out. In some AI models once a bad piece of information is learned it becomes exceedingly difficult to purge it.