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It's going to be interesting to see this play out with the AMA et al. The raging cynic in me thinks this is going to get very serious, very quickly. There are a lot of lifestyles at risk. On the other hand it will soon be possible to supply an endless parade of mothers offering politically unimpeachable testimony and demanding freedom to employ these tools.

I know who wins that, but there will be many pounds of flesh rent on the field in the meantime.

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I’d be amazed if one or more of the large EMR vendors wasn’t already developing some sort of diagnostic co-pilot. They along with insurers have unique access to critical data for such applications and both have motivations… having worked for a major insurer, however, I don’t believe they have the technical competence or willingness to see longer-term value from true improvements in diagnostics vs. short-run thinking. (But I really hope I’m wrong there).

Yeah I feel the same. As soon as someone comes out with a medical AI service that gets traction, the AMA is going to go nuclear and get legislation to ban medical diagnosis AI.

The best they can do is similar to a surgeons general warning. I don't see an outright ban.

They will certainly attempt to employ IP barriers to the necessary data until they can figure out how to monetize and direct profits into the correct pockets. "Safety" will be the imperative on which they hang their cloaks, in addition to the conventional IP claims.

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