Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine
by nickthemagicman on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:49PM
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I agree they would prefer to reduce expenses and increase profits however that's not what the long term outcome of medical automation is going to do. It's going to put them out of business.
Exactly, enabling the market to be controlled by a handful of large corporations, which has some negative consequences for patients (in addition to the benefits of technology).
Just consider all the conversations people have about Google. Life is just so much better with Google Search and YouTube -- learning things is so easy now. Yet, there are some nagging doubts about what we gave up to have that access to information.
Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine
by nickthemagicman on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:59AM
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It could go numerous ways.
It could be centralized, it could be a bunch of contractors working for a large corporation like uber health, or technology could do what it did for the record industry and enable the small provider.
You don't need to trust, but only use a little logic. Would a doctor prefer to reduce expenses and increase profits? Of course there's some interest in preserving status quo, but as that "Cult of the Root Cause" [0] article pointed out, there can be many system dynamics working simultaneously.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109114