Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
by tsol on Sunday January 23, 2022 @09:27PM
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>Hospitals don’t have any single person on staff who stays attached to particular in-patients.
This is incorrect. Doctors are assigned to patients, and if there is a complication any time or day or night the doctor is contacted to decide what to do. The entire point is so that there is one person who is familiar with the patient, who is also responsible if anything goes wrong. I don't know how malpractice would work with an AI, but given the number of malpractice cases yearly in the US it'd either be sued out of viability or have to be provided with legal immunity(possibly the worst scenario IMO)
This is incorrect. Doctors are assigned to patients, and if there is a complication any time or day or night the doctor is contacted to decide what to do. The entire point is so that there is one person who is familiar with the patient, who is also responsible if anything goes wrong. I don't know how malpractice would work with an AI, but given the number of malpractice cases yearly in the US it'd either be sued out of viability or have to be provided with legal immunity(possibly the worst scenario IMO)