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How about improving the processes and reduce the amount of forms and admin work instead?
This is another version of "use public transport instead of throwing billions on futile self driving cars" -- it's the correct, rational thing to do, but it's not the American way!
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The HIPPA rules on health data are fairly strict, otherwise your doctor, hospital and so on could already be doing wrong. Personally I have a dumb TV, car, doorbell and fridge so not much spying there. The phone I'm less sure of.
Working at the edge of cybersecurity and privacy, you've just stepped in it: there is no "Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act". It's the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA). (And I see that noone corrects you below. [edit -- actually a few people do, or the comments are continuing]) Gravity is a fairly strict law too. Maybe you should review what it covers, what it doesn't. The Act…
I wouldn't expect right capitalization of FedRAMP. But JAVA vs. Java and HIPPA vs HIPAA just seem like you're not truly familiar.
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> So the same as doctors making occasional big dangerous mistakes that cause lives. Will it be? There are already unanswered questions on who's liable if Tesla's FSD runs you into someone.
I would assume you, the person behind the wheel of the car. Much the same the doctor/staff hitting the submit button on the validity of the records statement.
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I'm saying getting close to perfection is truly dangerous territory, because everyone gets very complacent at that point. As a concrete example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pilots-fall-asleep-mid-flight-1...
We are already there with humans. Most people take a doctor at their word and don't bother to get a second opinion.
There should be requirements for any AI tool provider in the medical space to go through something like an IRB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board) given they're fundamentally conducting medical experimentation on patients, and patients should have to consent to its use.
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That can be easily solved without an EMR. In fact, that's a good AI use case
This doesn't make any sense... an AI is going to be reading the EMRs.
But you are correct, 'record' will be a storage service with no front end required inputs from the doctor. That's the point. Inputs and outputs without a keyboard or mouse. Just natural language.
In effect, EMRs would become voice-enabled AI chatbots.
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There are already too many restrictive law and rules in the US around healthcare, and here you want to add another restriction.
Ok, I’ll bite. List some concrete examples. Otherwise, I have to land on the default that regulation is good and works better than a free-for-all.
How generous of you
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And what is your recourse? There's no private cause of action for HIPAA violations.
Bingo. As a new ambulance chaser, I was having some real difficulty getting the medical records for a client - no response for weeks and weeks and weeks. Aha! I thought. HIPAA gives them 30 days(sortof). We'll sue, and surely there's an attorney fee provision in there. Easy money. GOOGLE Wait what? No private cause of action! All I can do is file a complaint with HHS! That said, depending on your state, you may be ab…
Maybe ChatGPT would have given you a more favourable answer?
I think these tools are the solution to the shortage of doctors, and will greatly improve performance by taking more parameters into account. Not sure though if a simple LLM can do that. (Shortage of doctors is a thing at least in DE and CH) Doctors study like 10 years to follow a decision tree based on patient background and symptoms. Especially in countries where education is harder to get by this can be useful, I…
The solution to the shortage of doctors is to stop letting doctors decide the supply of doctors. Its a special interest problem. Doctors organize, bribe/lobby politicians, limit licenses, make extra money/get more power, repeat. The excuse 'there isnt enough surgeries', is a chicken and egg problem. More doctors lower the cost, making surgery more reasonable and not necessarily a last ditch option. Not to mention, we…
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... which, from TFA, adds up to 19 hours (ie >2 extra working days) per week, time that could be (and is) spent seeing other patients.
no argument with the benefit for doctors. I know docs who say they are squeezed because their day is engineered in a way to force them to do paperwork later just wondering what computer process takes minutes. is it building the linux kernel every time?