This the same AI that was able to suss out people's race from metadata or whatever and used that to make poor diagnostic decisions?
It’s about that time, eh chaps?
Have fun with those malpractice lawsuits!
if the test comes back negative, it’s wrong only about 3 times out of 10,000,”
This is a hard one. While this could lead to an increase in the frequency of body scans, it's being said by a healthcare ceo so I kind of need him to play a game a Luigi's Mansion before I can listen to him.
and the people are ready to replace him with... dead him
Before Lemmy gets their man buns in a knot....pathologists and radiologists make a huge number of mistakes.
83% of radiologists in a study did not see a gorilla pasted into an xray image.
Pathologists have errors as high as 11%.
Usual business "journalism"
“Undeniable proof that confidently uninformed hospital administrators are a danger to patients: easily duped by AI companies that are nowhere near capable of providing patient care,” Suhail told Radiology Business. “Any attempt to implement AI-only reads would immediately result in patient harm and death, and only someone with zero understanding of radiology would say something so naive. But in some sense, they’re correct: Hospitals are happy to cut costs even if it means patient harm, as long as it’s legal.”
People gonna die.
How about replacing CEO's with AI?
Public hospital
Has a CEO
The chief executive of America’s largest public hospital system says he is prepared to start replacing radiologists with artificial intelligence in some circumstances, once the regulatory landscape catches up.
Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, recently spoke during a panel discussion held by Crain’s New York Business. The trained internal medicine specialist noted how AI is increasingly being used to interpret mammograms and X-rays.
This presents an opportunity to save on how much hospitals spend on radiologists, who have become more costly amid rising demand for imaging, Crain’s reported Thursday.
“We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge,” Katz said at the forum, held on March 25.
Katz—who has led the 11-hospital organization since 2018—said he sees great potential for AI to increase access to breast cancer screening. Hospitals could potentially produce “major savings” by letting the technology handle first reads, with radiologists then double-checking any abnormal screenings.
Fellow panelist David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, said his system is already seeing great success in deploying such technology. The AI Westchester uses misses very few breast cancers and is “actually better than human beings,” he told the audience.
“For women who aren’t considered high risk, if the test comes back negative, it’s wrong only about 3 times out of 10,000,” Lubarsky said.
Katz asked fellow hospital CEOs if there is any reason why they shouldn’t be pushing for changes to New York state regulations, allowing AI to read images “without a radiologist,” Crain’s reported. In this scenario, rads could then provide second opinions, if AI flags any images as abnormal. Sandra Scott, MD, CEO of the One Brooklyn Health, a small hospital facing tight margins, agreed with this line of thinking, according to Crain’s.
“I mean, I’m in charge of a safety-net institution. It would be a game-changer,” Scott said about AI being used to replace rads.
The discussion comes after Dario Amodei, PhD, CEO of Anthropic, recently made similar statementsabout artificial intelligence replacing rads. In a podcast interview, he falsely stated that AI has taken over the specialty’s core function, allowing doctors to focus more on the human side of the job. Radiologists roundly criticized Amodei’s remarks. Mohammed Suhail, MD, a San Diego-based rad with North Coast Imaging, said the same about Katz’s comments on Monday.
“Undeniable proof that confidently uninformed hospital administrators are a danger to patients: easily duped by AI companies that are nowhere near capable of providing patient care,” Suhail told Radiology Business. “Any attempt to implement AI-only reads would immediately result in patient harm and death, and only someone with zero understanding of radiology would say something so naive. But in some sense, they’re correct: Hospitals are happy to cut costs even if it means patient harm, as long as it’s legal.”
Looks like this guy needs to be reminded of what the CEO of Five Guys recently said/did.
This seems like a bad idea. There is no intelligence in AI. Its a helpful tool to be used alongside a skilled expert. It should never replace people. We need actual intelligence in there.
CEOs think AI can do everyone's jobs because AI can do their job pretty easily, and they assume everyone else's jobs are as easy or easier than theirs.
This trend of AI being a little more than mere assistants (a barely functional one at that) to replacing doctors is frightening.
Tech bros are as delusional as the AI they promote.
CEO will still utilize services of a human radiologist for himself and family
I can't wait for AI to recreate another Therac-25 incident!!! /s
Katz—who has led the 11-hospital organization since 2018—said he sees great potential for AI to increase access to breast cancer screening. Hospitals could potentially produce “major savings” by letting the technology handle first reads, with radiologists then double-checking any abnormal screenings.
Notice how this guy is focused on 1. Screening more people and 2. “Major savings.”
On the surface this seems really positive bc it means more people can get screened and it’ll cost less right? Nope, what he’s really saying is it’ll allow them to see more clients customers patients while paying fewer peasants servants employees which means more money for him. Who gives a damn if the ai makes mistakes and causes harm to poor people? He will still have access to real doctors and medical professionals who can guarantee the best treatment, so fuck the rest of us
I've been thinking that AI is a joke and can't replace half the people we're told it can. What I'm beginning to see, is that these assholes are going to replace us with AI anyway! They don't care if it performs horribly, as long as it costs a little less than a human.
Making sure Americans still get some of the worst healthcare for the highest price !
Hello Therac-25, what are you doing back here? 💀☢️
In other news Americas largest public hospital sees record breaking wrongful death lawsuits against CEO.
There seems to be two extreme camps surrounding AI right now. Those mounting a Butlerian Jihad against it and idiots like this CEO who think it can replace human oversight. Everybody has gone mad. It can be a useful supplemental tool and it doesn't need to be destroyed but it can't even replace a writer of children's books much less radiologists. AI is and always will be a dumbass machine. It can never replace a human especially in the state that it's in now.
"Imagine the profits!"
-CEO of America's largest public hospital system
Hospitals should be run by doctors, not CEOs.
May the spirit of Brian Thompson light his wretched path.
He's ready to replace radiologists ... but is the AI ready to replace radiologists? I really doubt it.
Fuckin lol
eew why are you linking to Hacker News comments?
That place makes me want to vomit from techbro vertigo every time I go there.
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