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The article focuses on technology and its role in improving care and reducing errors, which makes sense given that WSJ is a business journal, but one of the physicians quoted makes a passing reference to "learning healthcare systems" which are a very interesting topic on their own and, arguably, more immediately beneficial as a concept to healthcare as a whole than AI barely being piloted at a small number of hospitals.
Not enough time to go into the whole topic now, but in 2012 the Institute of Medicine (one of the National Academies) released a consensus report on revamping the healthcare system to become a "learning" system. Here's a link to a summary of the recommendations:
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report Files/2012/Best-Care/Best Care at Lower Cost_Recs.pdf
Most importantly, it should be emphasized that a core part is fundamentally changing the way we handle clinical data which is currently treated as a private asset held by hospitals and insurers in order to obtain a competitive advantage but when made free and open allows for easier, faster information exchange leading to faster, broader consensus and faster scientific innovation/generation of knowledge. To an extent this kind of system already exists in a form in pediatriatic oncology's consortium model of scientific collaboration.
Not enough time to go into the whole topic now, but in 2012 the Institute of Medicine (one of the National Academies) released a consensus report on revamping the healthcare system to become a "learning" system. Here's a link to a summary of the recommendations:
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report Files/2012/Best-Care/Best Care at Lower Cost_Recs.pdf
Most importantly, it should be emphasized that a core part is fundamentally changing the way we handle clinical data which is currently treated as a private asset held by hospitals and insurers in order to obtain a competitive advantage but when made free and open allows for easier, faster information exchange leading to faster, broader consensus and faster scientific innovation/generation of knowledge. To an extent this kind of system already exists in a form in pediatriatic oncology's consortium model of scientific collaboration.
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