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12/27/2021 04:58:00 PM

I worked in healthcare AI for 5 years. In the US, everyone is talking a big game, but the truth is the healthcare system has incentivized data collection entirely around billing with almost no value placed on health. Records for individuals are fragmented across so many different systems, EHR is difficult to parse and anything clean is something they had to write down for insurance. I was at a health insurance company for 2 years, and there it got even worse. I was in a meeting while the businesspeople were brainstorming an algorithm to help convince doctors when to give up on treatment and move on to hospice, just so they could save money. Any AI added to the US healthcare system is just going to be optimizing how to extract money from the system even at the cost of human life. And the funny thing is that most health issues are literally so easy to fix if we lowered barriers to access, gave people agency over their health, fixed our awful food system, and stopped exploiting everyone financially so they wouldn't need to turn to medication to cope.