Doctor AI will see you now: US military vets will be diagnosed by deep-learning bots The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has signed a five-year deal with Flow Health, an AI company, to develop personalized healthcare plans for veterans using deep learning. Deep learning is a tool in machine learning that is useful for sifting through huge heaps of data to find useful information. Flow Health is focusing …
Why do people always bring up liability? It doesn't matter as long as there's less overall liability. But the answer would be both the software company and the VA, because that's how lawsuits work, irrespective of indemnity clauses.
I don't know, but somehow I expect that the health software does a bit more than an inner join on symptoms and diseases.
U.S. Depertment of Veterans Affairs Budget Request Fiscal Year 2017
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Thanks for the link, but let's put it in context. The 2017 VA budget is $182bn to be specific, a small fraction of US healthcare spending. That's a 5% increase over this year, also low by US healthcare standards.
Still, is our VA providing good care? AFAIK no. And I have no doubt Deepmind will help bring the UK VA down to our low standards. And raise costs, cos high-tech AI...
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