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Modern intensive care medical practice

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Modern intensive care medical practice

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Postby odysseus2000 » November 6th, 2018, 9:35 am

Interesting article concerning the practice of intensive care and the methodology of bringing patients back from near death, not breathing heart stopped kind of cases.

The investment opportunities highlighted by the article are, surprisingly to me, mostly about the need for preventing mistakes and the use of combined medication and infection suppression products more than specific new procedures or new technology. Kind of wonder if AI will soon start to become important or whether human dexterity is currently so superior that this type of work is for now too complicated for AI

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007 ... -checklist

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Re: Modern intensive care medical practice

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Postby odysseus2000 » November 6th, 2018, 10:36 am

Follow up article on why doctors hate their computers:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... -computers

There is some interesting investment information in this.

It is clear that the current systems are both essential and yet so full of overheads that their effectiveness is blunted.

The use of real patient data of walking etc is a strong indicator of the power of products like Apple Watch, Fitbit etc to provide useful information and is as Tim Cook put it: "A business opportunity!"

The scribe technology of recording audio of the medic patient interaction and then having this translated into notes by an Indian medic looks well suited to AI although whether AI is currently good enough to replace a trained medic is unclear to me.

Perhaps we have reached the limit of what current technology can do and we will only advance with AI systems, if not the business opportunities for folk who can make computer record keeping easier to do and easier to recover look to be substantial. The app system of software that can be tailored to a particular speciality looks like a way forward, likely something that offer huge opportunities to anyone who can make it work.

Often in investment it is articles like these that set us up to be able to evaluate new technology offerings and investment opportunities as to whether they are likely to be taken in size by medics etc.

If I was to guess I would think that neural nets have great potential as record recorders, record keepers and record information presenters in a more human way than much of the current systems do.

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Re: Modern intensive care medical practice

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Postby Stonge » November 6th, 2018, 11:12 am

AI is just a marketing term.


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