Being a doctor is one of the jobs expected to be least at risk from AI replacement. But a new program launched in Utah is raising questions over that assumption. A healthcare startup will begin offering AI examinations and prescriptions to patients without direct human oversight, making Utah the first state to replace a doctor with an AI.
The good news is that the program is currently very limited in its scope. It’s just one year long and only for patients with mild-to-moderate acne.
The process works when a person signs up for Nolla Health’s $4.99-per-month app and uses it to scan their face. After completing a medical history and personal information form, the AI analyzes their skin, identifies the acne problem, rates the skin’s oiliness, and then generates a numerical acne severity score that ranges between clear skin and severe acne, reports Bloomberg.
Normally there is a human in the loop. That is the specific difference, and it is a real and crucial difference.
I get that you’re being pithy and taking a cheap shot at the US healthcare system, and it deserves to have cheap shots taken at it, but this is a whole brave new frontier of “incredibly fucked”.
“In the loop” lol…
They hamstrung by insurance approvals, which have been shitty chatbots for years.
That human had zero control.
It doesn’t mean this won’t be worse, doesn’t mean more people will die.
But from a patient’s perspective it’s not going to be much different. That means this is a bigger problem tho, not a smaller one.
Your pithy, dismissive responses about this makes it pretty clear you don’t actually understand the nuances of how medical/healthcare works, either in or out of the US.
At any rate: I’m not defending the US healthcare system. It’s an absolute shitshow. But if you think this particular development doesn’t matter much and things as of right now are already “as bad as they can get”… well, buckle up, buttercup. There are a lot of ways they can make our medical system meaningfully worse than it already is. This is just one mechanism to accomplish that.
Someone being dismissive of you because you don’t know what you’re talking about…
Means they don’t know what they’re talking about?
Ok Kanye…
Are you from the US? Do you work in healthcare? Or have any real firsthand experience of the inner workings of US healthcare from a non-patient/family caregiver perspective?
Because I am from the US and I’ve spent my entire adult life as a provider, and the commenter you’re being a little bitch to is entirely in the right. Your misanthropic doomerism is as tired as it is willfully ignorant
So in your opinion, American healthcare didn’t have a problem?
Do you think Luigi (allegedly) over-reacted?
Like the person you were replying to said, the US healthcare system is super fucked in many ways, but it can get a whole lot worse. Pretending that an unsupervised chatbot treating patients isn’t any worse than how things currently are is bafflingly stupid. So stupid it would take someone who has no real experience in the matter to say it and then defend it. Neither the original commenter, or myself, have gotten remotely close to saying american healthcare doesn’t have problems
Honestly dude I don’t know what you’re even arguing for here. You are genuinely not making any rhetorical or logical sense.