Medicine by machine

• Autores: Aviva Rutkin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3089, 2016, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Artificial intelligence researchers have long dreamed of creating machines that can diagnose health conditions, suggest treatment plans to doctors, and even predict how a patient's health will change. The main advantage of such an AI wouldn't be speed, but precision. A study published earlier this year found that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US, and a significant chunk of that is incorrect diagnoses. There are just too many health conditions and the literature is changing too rapidly for a primary care physician to retain it all, says Herbert Chase, who works on biomedical informatics at Columbia University in New York City. Here, Rutkin examines how AI is learning about humans' every ailment and whether doctors will welcome them into the clinic.