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Why? What's the point? The radiologists aren't paid by the hospital anyway. This saves exactly zero dollars.

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Now the CEO can get the money the radiologist would have gotten, and I'm sure there is nothing to worry about when the hospital is sued because the AI said it was a tomor when it wasn't or whatever - that's just someone else's problem, right?
@gwynnion Nothing good will come from AI. People will die.

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Besides being a horrifying disaster, I think there’s a fairly good chance that if you dig through this, they’ll still be a human radiologist at the end, except an extremely overworked one who’s supposed to verify whatever the damn automation flags

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@gwynnion The one thing I can contribute is that large hospital systems will more or less take any chance they can to break the power of doctors. As an example, when I was in marketing, my firm was doing branding & communications for a large physician's org that was trying to develop their own medical information system. The main hospital system they worked with pretended to collaborate until they had their own version finished. Very questionable legally, but the physicians org was in a corner.
@gwynnion (This is not intended as a defense of physicians or physicians orgs.)
@gwynnion @lisamelton I don’t want this to happen and I’m tired of greed in healthcare. That said, there are published articles in medical journals validating that AI is a useful tool in radiology and there is study that showed that when acting alone it did better than radiologists alone and better than radiologists using AI help at identifying pathologies. We need to train radiologists how to use AI effectively, not fire doctors. As much as I am not an AI fan in general, it does seem to have a useful role in some diagnostic radiology.