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Comment by xarope

14 hours ago

In healthcare, HIPAA/GDPR equivalent would block this. Let's be realistic in our discussion; this is not the same as google buying up a library worth of books, scanning and destroying them

There are other countries, and the patients in them all have similar data

  • Other countries actually don't necessarily have a similar mix of ailments, median patient appearance and style of communication or even recommended course of action and most of the ones with more sophisticated medical care also have strict medical privacy laws. If you're genuinely unaware of this, I'm not sure you're in a position to be making "one year with a camera, how hard can it be" arguments...

    (Where AI is likely to actually excel in medicine is parsing datasets that are much easier to do context free number crunching on than ER rooms, some of which physicians don't even have access to ...)