If you were to find out that the AI/ML system was used to make recommendations on your care and no one told you, how would you feel? Well, come to think of it, do you know whether an AI/ML system was used the last time you saw a physician?

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I found this FANTASTIC article (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3529576) that runs through a scenario of a patient speaking with his physician and the recommended course of treatment for his diagnosis.Read this. The article brings up a host of ethical questions about informed consent and asks some very hard to answer questions.

“If you were to find out that the AI/ML system was used to make recommendations on your care and no one told you, how would you feel? Well, come to think of it, do you know whether an AI/ML system was used the last time you saw a physician?”

2. Cloud is a fancy term for “someone else’s computer”.

“How does IBM Watson work?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7E1TJ1HtM0) and “Watson Health for Diabetes Management” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFD8HFqNR18) describe how wearables, data management and analytics in the Watson Health Cloud. IBM is then able to make predictive analytics for a give patient and sends information/recommendations to the patient’s smartphone.

IBM claims they can predict if a patient is on their way to experiencing a diabetic event and send the patient information and recommendations to avoid the predicted event.

I don’t think this is replacing healthcare practitioners, but what are your thoughts on this type of predictive analysis using the cloud?