> I see lots of AI companies are trying to transform the MedTech industry, but I'm unsure how much of their products useful / are actually adopted by the hospitals. Maybe some experts in that space can enlighten me on that?
My impression (as an outsider with a partner in the medical field) is that the prime function of the "medical industry" is to generate reams and reams of documentation about "care provided" to an insanely granular level. Functionally, this information is mostly bullshit that is irrelevant to providing medical care, but it serves a very important purpose for the medical administrative class so that they can bill the patient for each bandage applied or Ibuprofen administered.
AI MedTech companies mostly seem primed to increase this firehose of bullshit. Whether or not that will take the pressure off front-line medical personnel who are currently tasked with generating it remains to be seen, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me.
There are a few other reasons - doctors document every interaction partly for medico-legal reasons – just in case something happens. The notes become especially long and defensive in any situations that have a possibility of being misinterpreted. If it's not written down, it didn't happen. It's obviously also a record for other clinicians / healthcare professionals to read through and see what happened during the admission.
But yep I do worry about any kind of generative AI in this context.
My impression (as an outsider with a partner in the medical field) is that the prime function of the "medical industry" is to generate reams and reams of documentation about "care provided" to an insanely granular level. Functionally, this information is mostly bullshit that is irrelevant to providing medical care, but it serves a very important purpose for the medical administrative class so that they can bill the patient for each bandage applied or Ibuprofen administered.
AI MedTech companies mostly seem primed to increase this firehose of bullshit. Whether or not that will take the pressure off front-line medical personnel who are currently tasked with generating it remains to be seen, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me.