I for one am not concerned about AI prescribing. I am concerned it has not yet reached Texas.
Category: Telemedicine
NYT: What is Physicians’ Role in an AI Empowered Health Care System?
AI is causing some doctors to rethink what it means to be a physician. What is their purpose in the age of chatbots that can spit out accurate answers to medical questions 24 hours a day and do not take vacations. Will AI boost the productivity of doctors the way tractors boost the productivity of farmers? Or will it put skilled knowledge workers out of a job like the assembly line did to cobblers and tailors?
State Regulated Practice of Medicine Inhibits Innovative Practice Models
Anything that can cut through the bureaucracy and turf wars to nudge medical care into the Information Age would benefit consumers and boost access to care.
Friday Links
- The ROBINHOOD Act: How to keep the rich from avoiding income taxes.
- Even though almost all abortions are banned in Texas, roughly 38,599 women got one by using telehealth providers.
- “In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.”
- Canada’s median health care wait time hits 28.6 weeks—second longest ever recorded.
- Slovenia endorsed MAHA long before there was MAGA. (Statnews)