What can possibly go wrong?
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson- The Government’s Obsession with Artificial Intelligence and Tech
Streeting has framed the NHS as under enormous pressure from chronic waiting lists, staff shortages and outdated systems, saying the service is “broken” and needs reform alongside investment. Introducing AI and digital technology is a key part of his efforts to transform the NHS into a more digital, modern, and efficient system.
“Introducing AI and digital technology is a key part of his efforts to transform the NHS into a more digital, modern, and efficient system.”
I’m old enough to remember when these lying scum were claiming they’d use the Internet to transform the NHS into a more digital, modern, and efficient system. Before that it was personal computers! that would transform the NHS!!! Remember that? Yeah, good times…
Before that it was mainframes that were going to transform the NHS, I remember it but it was before my time, I was a kid.
Nothing can transform the NHS. Or Health Canada, or Obamacare, etc. Except a gigantic fire. If we burned it all to the ground and salted the ashes, that would make a difference.
Socialism doesn’t work. It leads to nothing but misery. This is the reality of life. Too bad so sad, Normies, Uncle Sugar ain’t coming to give you free stuff.
Well if leftists government didn’t have artificial intelligence, it would have no intelligence at all.
As Lowell Greene once said:
What the healthcare system needs is more running shoes and less high heels.
AI will not help the folks languishing in hallways for hours on end. More front end staff is needed and less of the polished windbags looking for a magc bullet. Someone like Alex Munter (Ottawa) cannot diagnose a physical health problem but he is sure good at winging on about lack of funds whilst collecting a huge salary. Lose the Munters (his salary would pay for around ten or so nurses) and let the hospitals be run by the medical professionals.
I have noticed that advancements in Information Technology have yielded enormous productivity gains (and corresponding cost reductions after adjusting for inflation) in almost every sector but two: Public Health Care and Public Education. Somehow those two “Sacred Pigs” always need bigger budgets year after year.
My career was in Telecommunications, where in the 1960’s a minimum three minute call to someone more than ten miles away cost around a dollar. People would wait until after 11 pm to call someone one or two provinces away. Now we have cell-phone plans that provide unlimited Canada-wide calling 24/7 with an additional 50 GB of data and text messaging, for about forty bucks a month.
Recall your Jurassic Park lesson:
See, there is 26 velociraptors accounted for.
but How many are actually in the pen?
39.
AI would conclude that I should be DENIED medical care because I am:
A Diabetic (with excellent A1c numbers always in the 6’s)
Hypertensive (with perfectly normal bp day in and day out)
Hypercholesterol (although my TOTAL cholesterol number is 80 … <200 is ‘normal’)
Hypogonadism (don’t laugh, but my testosterone is virtually nonexistent)
Neuropathy (but doesn’t bother me in the least or restrict my activities)
None of this has stopped me from essentially rebuilding my entire house over the last few years (yeah, it takes an old man longer). I just put in two new lawns; rough graded with a walk-behind Bobcat, finish graded, double bender board installed, wire gopher mesh laid, topsoil installed graded and compacted, new sod laid) I paid a local kid to install the new irrigation. And I just installed a new concrete walkway and patio (only formwork, I paid for a conc. contractor to reinforce, pour and finish concrete). And installed a complete mortar-set used brick finish (including post bases and plant shelves).
So … on paper … AI would select me for DENIAL of service. And I should note that NONE of my personal accounts of how I FEEL and what I DO are recorded on my medical charts … although I constantly tell my Doc’s. how good I feel and what I do.
Putting robots and stats without context in charge of human health will result in institutional MURDER.
Kenji
Given your history of diabetes, past high blood pressure, and neuropathy, how’s your kidney function?
Perfect. Thank you for asking. And my feet and legs/skin are perfectly healthy (almost) as well.
My feet are somewhat always swollen and numb, but perfectly healthy. And with all the work I do, I’m always barking my shins, and ripping a cut or tear. And these wounds heal slowly … but they do heal and do fine.
Glad to hear your kidneys are okay. My diabetes and blood pressure have been under control for years now, but my kidney function was severely degraded. So far I’m stable.
I’m sorry to hear the first part of that. I know it may be just a matter of time for me. How do you FEEL otherwise. Because you always ‘sound’ coherent.
Kenji
The only symptom I have is that I often feel cold. This is often the first symptom you get when kidney function declines.
I still have enough function (10-12%) in my kidneys that I’m doing all my normal things. But I’m watching what I eat, and have pretty much cut out all salt.
Take care Joe. I feel cold a lot of the time … but that’s because my thermostat is set at 61deg.F so I don’t have to pay PG&E > $1,000/mo. 🙂
Let’s see, how much money is big pharma putting into AI.
AI could turn into a pill dispensing juggernaut.
A.I.?
The bureaus have plenty of that ..
Arrogant Incompetence.
Where so called Artificial Intelligence comes into its own,is in the fine art of Butt Covering.
No need to blame some unnamed minion,now the computer can be blamed,for the failure of the bureaucrat.
And ,because all access will be through “answering services” the minions will never have to hear of the cruel results of their ineptitude..
“But the trains will run on time”.