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The Potential Revolution of Personalized Health Information and the Role of Computers in Medicine
TLDR The ability for individuals to have access to and control over their own health information has the potential to revolutionize medicine. Computers, like Watson, are moving towards replacing doctors by providing more accurate diagnoses and analyzing medical research efficiently.
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00:00
The podcast episode discusses the growing desire among average people to track their health and well-being using tools like Fitbit and other wearable technology.
04:09
Computers may replace doctors in the future, with some believing that general practitioners will be replaced by diagnostic computers, while others argue that specialists will be out of business and GPs will still be needed, but mainly to facilitate the interaction between robots and humans.
08:22
Computers can provide consistent and empathetic bedside manner, as well as have a better awareness of a patient's medical history and potentially surpass doctors in diagnosis.
12:35
Computers like Watson can analyze medical records, research, and diagnostic tests to provide a list of diagnoses with different confidence levels, which is more efficient than human doctors who don't have time to read all the available data.
16:53
Computers like Watson are moving towards replacing doctors because they can provide more accurate diagnoses by quickly indexing and analyzing medical research, which is important because one in five diagnoses in the US are incorrect or incomplete due to doctors not having access to all the available data or cases.
21:23
Fully roboticized surgeries, where a robot performs the surgery autonomously based on input from the doctor, are already happening, but there are concerns about underreporting of injuries and the need for proper training for doctors using these machines.
25:57
Misdiagnosis is a significant problem in the medical field, with studies showing that as many as 40,000 patients die in intensive care each year in the U.S. due to misdiagnosis, and system-related and cognitive factors are often to blame, but medical diagnostic programs like Isabel have shown to be highly accurate and could greatly assist doctors in making diagnoses.
30:34
The ability for individuals to have access to and control over their own health information, including diagnostic tools and personalized medical history, has the potential to revolutionize medicine.
34:35
The future of physicians and their specialization remains uncertain, but significant changes in the medical field are predicted to occur within the next 15 years.
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