"There's no question about it — whether you want it or not — the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars," Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said recently at an event focused on addiction and mental health hosted by Action for Progress."
Medicare and Medicaid are the US's universal healthcare programs for older and low-income people. They've faced steep cuts in funding since Trump came to power, particularly in rural areas.
New research in Rwanda and Pakistan shows LLMs can outperform human doctors in diagnostic success. We're heading for a world where everyone gets the same standard of AI healthcare, and it's near free & universally accessible. It will be a big improvement in Rwanda and Pakistan, and it will probably be an improvement for poorer people in developed countries, too.
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
The US government wants robots & AI chatbots to make up for a shortfall of human medical staff in its Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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As long as both the Provider and the AI Administrator is fully liable (prison and finance) for every incorrect diagnose …
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And this is a bad thing? The private sector is already doing it. It’s new technology, it means change. People are sometimes afraid of change. It’s not going to fully replace humans, though, considering that there are more people than medical staff available as it is now, this isn’t going to make a situation worse.
booo
nobody trusts AI without human intervention especially when your lives/health is at stake
edit: have AI do the paperwork, have AI find the cheapest bill for the same treatment, do an AI review just in case but do not have AI see or treat patients. i already dont like telehealth (cant even see or swab a sore throat). ai should automate drudgery.
Lol when they fucked up so badly they want science fiction to take over
LLMs make mistakes even with perfect data. Let that sink in. That is because of the statistical nature of LLM.
Real AI, as in developed and programmed for this purpose, has real potential to help here.
A glorified chat-bot? Not so much.
Gonna be real interested in how they want to do nursing, patient care, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, convincing recalcitrant patients to take meds, just the whole handling of dementia or other memory loss conditions…
Honestly i think the current medical system is absolutely terrible at diagnosis, so AI is likely to do a better job out of sheer mitigation of incompetence.
But diagnosis isn’t the hard part of medicine
A bad way to fix a problem that the government created for itself. Sounds about right.
The same AI tech that prompts young boys to kill themselves…so, like, AI death panels? Does anyone else remember the good old days when Obama was building death panels staffed with real people?
US government wants 90+% of all Healthcare workers replaced by Ai. Declaring them non-professional was a step in that direction and a gift to Big Tech.
Have they figured out a way to tell the difference between the mouth probe and the butt probe?
AI could do a better job than this current admiration if we are being honest.
As long as the rich folks are paying a premium up charge for robots. If the rich get humans, then this is service degradation with nice PR.
Some human being must be liable behind every service, and we notice when the rich don’t use the robots and retire them as inferior as soon as that happens.
Medicare and Medicaid are absolutely rotten with fraud, waste, and abuse. It’s about time that someone stopped writing blank Taxpayer-funded checks to those programs every single year. And if you think that AI can replace humans in a medical setting, you have clearly never worked in a hospital or performed patient care.
The issue is not diagnosis, but weeding through irrelevant information that patients give it. The primary symptom can give undue weight to a wrong diagnoses and existing models don’t backtrack as they get new information.
I am looking forward to this if it is done properly. I have witnessed too many doctors providing the treatment they have access to instead of providing the correct treatment.