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Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say (text.npr.org)
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Dr. Mehmet Oz is pitching a controversial fix for America's rural health care crisis: artificial intelligence.

"There's no question about it — whether you want it or not — the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars," Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said recently at an event focused on addiction and mental health hosted by Action for Progress, a coalition aimed at improving behavioral health care. He said AI could multiply the reach of doctors fivefold — or more — without burning them out.

The AI proposal is part of the Trump administration's $50 billion plan to modernize health care in rural communities. That includes deploying tools such as digital avatars to conduct basic medical interviews, robotic systems for remote diagnostics, and drones to deliver medication where pharmacies don't exist.

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 minutes ago

Dr Oz is a pigged eye sack of shit, who spreads so much disinformation.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 15 points 3 hours ago

Isn't Dr Oz prominently featured in the Trump-Epstein-Bondi files?

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Remember that (I think) C++ race condition in RTG software, that killed people with something like 0.0001% probability and it was a huge deal and a reason to immediately retire the devices (or maybe just fix the bug, the point is that in medical, it's super important to have a high success chance)?

I'm sure AI doing diagnosis will be able to get to a higher success chance, lol.

EDIT: From a quick search, it looks like mis-diagnosis chance in doctors is around 10%. I still don't think AI can do better.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

There is no way this could end badly. I hope they call the chatbot Dr OzAI just to really cement the outcome to his brand.