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Re:Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare by xtho on Sunday February 21, 2010 @01:22PM (#1140967)
"Clinical decision support systems" have been a test bed for AI since the 1980s at least. For whatever reason they never catched on.
Re:Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare by JunkDNA on Sunday February 21, 2010 @09:12PM (#1141750)
There are isolated cases where clinical decision support can work well. The best example of this are the ones that analyze prescriptions for dangerous combinations or mistaken quantities (too much for age, weight, etc...).

The reason they haven't caught on in the general case is because medicine is full of unique edge cases, and like much of AI, teaching a machine about all of them becomes exceptionally difficult.