Re:Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to ...
by lepapillon on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @12:06PM
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I don't really want to comment on whether or not DL is doomed to fail on the EMR, but coming from an EMR background, I can say he lays out very accurate points. I particularly like how he explains #3 concisely, and it's a point I use to criticize the private healthcare system.
The continual war between hospitals having to opportunistically charge for their services vs. the insurance industry having to take a default stance of deflection creates the massive, meaty layer of coding and billing waste. Thousands upon thousands of jobs exist just for this purpose, and I think any inefficiency in a single-payer system is more than offset by getting rid of that layer and everyone benefits.
The continual war between hospitals having to opportunistically charge for their services vs. the insurance industry having to take a default stance of deflection creates the massive, meaty layer of coding and billing waste. Thousands upon thousands of jobs exist just for this purpose, and I think any inefficiency in a single-payer system is more than offset by getting rid of that layer and everyone benefits.