Telemedicine – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors in 10 Years

Posted on March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 by Devon Herrick

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.

Tuesday Links

Posted on March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman

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Would You See a Hologram Doctor?

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Telemedicine is a way to see a doctor remotely. As an aside, I wonder if the people complaining that they are just as productive working remotely from home are the same ones who only want to see a doctor in person. Just a thought. In any case telemedicine has several small problems. Talking to a doctor on the phone is impersonal. Taking over Zoom allows you to see a face but not much else. Seeing a hologram is different.

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NYT: Poor Not Benefiting from Teletherapy for Mental Health

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Public health advocates and advocates for the poor seem prone to view the glass as half empty rather than half full. This is about teletherapy. Therapy over the phone was supposed to expand access to mental health care to needy people but so far that hasn’t happened, experts say. Online therapy is booming, but the poor and needy don’t seem to use it.

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