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Insurance is just a one part of the problem.

Large practices have treatment standards on which physicians are evaluated. Reporting side-effects might be politically inconvenient in some cases. Medicine is also, like other human endeavors, subject to fashions and fads.

At best, applying machine learning to health records will generate a hypothesis that must be checked in a properly controlled trial.




So it’s not a “terrible idea”?




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