Gartner
Now I know Gartner are smoking something bad for health.
As chatbot technology advances it will no longer be necessary to book an appointment to see a doctor as the whole meeting can all be done with the help of virtual personal health assistants, according to Gartner. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, the mystical mages at Gartner have, once again, made another bold prediction: up to …
I've read about insanity being considered, in some primitive societies, an indication of divine inspiration. Someone babbling nonsense may well wind up being venerated and given special status because of this belief.
Considering that somebody apparently PAYS Gartner for this "prognostication," perhaps we're not as advanced as we'd like to think?
Paris because I think even she knows better than to trust her health to a chatbot.
given that 99% of such appointments is: drink plenty of liquid, rest and if you think I'm taking a mickey, go get some paracetamol, NEXT! - yes, chatbots will do that cheaper. Because, let's be frankly, it's ONLY about cutting costs.
p.s. when can I expect to see MP chatbots, probably never?
IMHO a half decent chabot could be pretty helpful for the non-elderly.
I'd be up for it. At my GP it's so difficult to get an appointment, and when you do the GP is so staggeringly awful that these days we just go straight to A&E. I'm not proud, as this is clearly far from ideal for all concerned.
But maybe diverting the seemingly huge but not massively effective GP budget into broad 'triage' tech might work. While we are visioneering, this could perhaps even contribute to cutting down on overprescribed antibiotics.
these people are brain dead.
The problem is, so are 80% of the medical staff I talk to.
"Why didn't you tell me that?!?!" [accusing glare]
"I DID. TWICE."
Also, they care about nothing but the dollar. I was discussing test results with my ear/nose/throat doctor, and at the end, he stood up and started feeling my neck and throat. It was really strange, and I didn't realize until later that it let him bill the session as an examination for triple the cost. I complained to the insurance company and they told him to stop playing the fool.
Well, not quite as sophisticated as a bot that speaks and listens - we employ humans to read out the script from a computer screen and select from 1 of X possible answers received from the victim. (sorry potential patient). Given the extensive range of more or less incoherent accents in the UK, a bot would be one step too far; at least for the foreseeable future.
And I can see a whole new phishing area opening up: "Just take off your clothes and stand in front of the webcam for me"
But as for:
> they are better at processing all the determinants of health and wellbeing than even the best of doctors
That may be so, but it is only simple cases where an ill person walks into an appointment, only talks to someone and walks out with a prescription (though I can see this would be easily gamed to get some choice meds, for other uses). How will a chat-bot take your B.P. or pulse or ask "does this hurt?"
And it will still need the patient to turn up somewhere when the inevitable tests are required.
"Technology has advanced to the point where computers have become superior to the human mind; they are more accurate and consistent, and they are better at processing all the determinants of health and wellbeing than even the best of doctors."
This has to be a joke.
Laura Craft? She should go back to swinging on ropes and climbing walls.