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18 hours agoComputer assisted diagnosis is already an ubiquitous thing in medicine, it just doesn’t have LLM hype bubble behind it even though it very much incorporates AI solutions. Nevertheless, effectively all implementations never diagnose and rather make suggestions to medical practitioners. The biggest hurdle to uptake is usually giving users clearly and quickly the underlying cause for the suggestion (transparency and interpretability is a longstanding field of research here).
I used to work for Philips and that is exactly a lot of what the patient care informatics businesses (and the other informatics businesses really) were working on for quite a while. The biggest hold up when I was there was usually a combination of two things: regulatory process (very important) and mercurial business leadership (Philips has one of the worst and most dysfunctional management cultures, from c-suite all the way down, that I’ve ever seen).