That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I.
Furthermore, the use of technology often benefits medical professionals amid a population that believes the greater use of technology may improve their health outcomes, particularly if that technology is paid for by insurance plans.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
In a 1981 editorial on using a computer to interpret risk after exercise stress testing, Robert Califf and Robert Rosati wrote, “Proper interpretation and use of computerized data will depend as much on wise doctors as any other source of data in the past.”
Eric Topol • Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
But the Cigna review system that blocked van Terheyden’s claim bypasses those steps. Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their medical judgment to use, said former company employees familiar with the system. Instead, a computer does the work. A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acc... See more
Patrick Rucker • How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Diseases and other medical conditions can also have this self-fulfilling property. When medical conditions are widely discussed in the media, people are more likely to identify their symptoms, and doctors are more likely to diagnose (or misdiagnose) them.