Opinion: AI needs patients’ voices in order to revolutionize health care
If we are going to build machines that use data to help diagnose and treat humans, then humans — not technology — should be at the center of the process.
Patients’ stories — what doctors call patient histories — are the bedrock of medicine. “Listen to your patient; they are telling you the diagnosis,” an aphorism , the founder of modern medicine, still holds true today. The from electronic health records could be one reason that artificial intelligence and machine learning have so far failed to deliver their promised revolution of health care.
