I've been looking at challenges and the opportunities that face the next 100 years of medical care. Of the many factors, one of the really interesting things is the convergence of technology-based diagnosis (the internet, devices, products like Watson), and the explosion of surgical, medical and psychiatric robots (like Elsie). In 2006, an artificial intelligence doctor conducted a very successful heart operation. So what does it mean when people can get a warning from their phone, calling them to get further tests from an AI kiosk at a local health centre, which automatically gives them a diagnosis, books them for surgery, completes the surgery and monitors their home-based recovery all without humans getting involved? I think the medical profession will split into professional carers and those who pump away providing research for the 'machine'. What do you say?
PS I enclose my talk: Golembiewski, Jan. (2015). Raising our horizons – healthcare planning for the coming century. Paper presented at the New Zealand Health Design Conference, Aukland.
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