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Tag: decision support systems

Algorithmic de-skilling of clinical decision-makers

Jan 30, 2019

in AI, Clinical

autonomous vehicles, clinical decision making, clinical reasoning, clinicians, critical thinking, decision support systems, machine learning, self-driving cars

What will we do when we don’t drive most of the time but have a car that hands control to us during an extreme event? Agrawal, A., Gans, J. & Goldfarb, A. (2018). Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Before I get to the takehome message, I need to set this up a…
A.I. Versus M.D. What happens when diagnosis is automated?

Jul 25, 2018

in AI, Clinical

algorithms, clinical decision making, decision support systems, diagnosis, expert systems, machine learning, siddhartha mukherjee

The word “diagnosis,” he reminded me, comes from the Greek for “knowing apart.” Machine-learning algorithms will only become better at such knowing apart—at partitioning, at distinguishing moles from melanomas. But knowing, in all its dimensions, transcends those task-focussed algorithms. In the realm of medicine, perhaps the ultimate rewards come from knowing together. Source: A.I. Versus…