AI features that .. WHAT?
How does that work? Are you saying that personal doctors appointments are being live transcribed by microsoft or openai?
Over. My. Dead. Body.
AI features that .. WHAT?
How does that work? Are you saying that personal doctors appointments are being live transcribed by microsoft or openai?
Over. My. Dead. Body.
That ship has sailed. And that isn’t the only use of AI in medicine. Radiology gets AI generated referrals that the referrer (apparently) reads before sending.
The MR images has signal added by AI in k-space. Then the frequency domain data is transformed to images and AI doubles the resolution (Thanks Siemens deep resolve). Then PACS checks for various things depending on what radiology paid for (stroke, lung lesions, fractures, breast lesions).
The report goes out, ready for your follow up appointment.
In the US maybe, it seems normalised for people to run cctv inside their own homes even.
Can’t see it happening here (eu).
I’m in New Zealand.
At my last doctor's appointment the nurse asked if I was okay with AI conversation transcription and summarizing that the doctor uses. So I had the option to decline.
I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. There are contextual details you might include when talking to your doctor that you wouldn't expect your doctor to write down into your medical record.
There are hordes of startups working in that space, generally using HIPAA-compliant cloud services and/or on-device models, with different startups focusing on different specializations.
I would count them among the most viable startups in the AI space (implementation-wise), and also among some of the most necessary with the aging population. They are also compared to other places where AI is trying to be employed in the healthcare sector on the "lower risk" side of things (doctors still are accountable, and the benchmark are the current badly hand-typed notes).
Oh so the recording is being sent to a compliant service. That’s okay then. I’m sure all these doctors practices with their creaky dusty monitor mounted windows 10 thinkstations absolutely can’t be hacked or that the data could never fall into the hands of the government or anyone else.
Bananas. Why are we letting this happen?
So you are objecting to general electronic processing of healthcare records then?
Not sure how that is realistic in a world where insurance exists, unless your ideal is paper documentation and paying privately for your treatments in fiat. If that is what your after, I guess we've already been in a "over your dead body" world for decades.
No, my doctors surgery is fine to store my patient records internally (e.g on-site).
But no it’s not fine to store those externally without my express written permission , or make recordings and send them to a third party.
It’s realistic here — this is how it works in Germany for decades and i’m fine with it.
edit: storing these on an american cloud provider, or any cloud provider really counts as a third party to me, also.
I doubt if they're using raw MS or Open AI models (because the whole thing would have to be HIPAA compliant) but yes, some doctors will now ask if you consent to them using AI tools to transcribe the appointment.
Honestly, what’s the big deal? Before it was ai transcription they still used transcription a lot it was just algorithmic.
If your concerns are about privacy, that’s a seperate issue regardless, whether it’s AI or not doesn’t mean the data is being shared or not, and same with the transcriptions from before.
Yes privacy.
Maybe i’m just a crazy european but I find the concept of always on recording devices completely insane, let alone one in a doctors office.
I dont see how that’s a “separate issue” — separate from what?
> AI features that .. WHAT? ... Over. My. Dead. Body.
That in fact may be the exact outcome.
> Over. My. Dead. Body.
Maybe literally depending on where you end up dying.