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Re:Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Pu... by batter on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:47AM (#16405817)
Why doctor? It's the most expensive part of your healthcare. But it can be trainee/researcher/AI. Which could be absolutely out of expensive healthcare system. Service which you could buy for additional cost from company which has good guess/prediction ratio based on input parameters from doctor. Service which could be in any part of the world.
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Re:Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Pu... by arkades on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:56AM (#16405855)
What? The doctor’s visit is the cheapest part of healthcare. Procedures cost far more, and pharm far more again. Perhaps you’re outside of the US, though I can’t think of a country where this isn’t true.
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Re:Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Pu... by jessaustin on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:58AM (#16406629)
Don't forget diagnostic scans and tests. Those are quite expensive. However GP is proposing a service that doesn't actually exist now: paying a medical expert to spend a lot of time considering a challenging case. It would have obvious benefits, so we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand just because it would be too cheap.
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Re:Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Pu... by nitrogen on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:32PM (#16407776)
There was a now-defunct attempt at this called MetaMed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed

I'm curious if any others have succeeded.

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Re:Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Pu... by inetsee on Sunday February 18, 2018 @12:35PM (#16407107)
I have often thought that the Freestyle Chess model (a variation of Advanced Chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess ) could be applied to medical diagnosis.

Create a team consisting of one or more human doctors with a medical diagnostic AI.

From the article it sounds to me that a lot of the research could have been done by an AI, with the human doctors making the final decision on the "best" diagnosis.

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Re:Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Pu... by jdietrich on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:08PM (#16407599)
The technical term is "clinical decision support system".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_decision_support_syst...

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