Reality Checkup: Medical Artificial Intelligence Still a Hard Sell in the Clinic
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 14:56
in Health & Medicine
When a clogged artery landed Peter Szolovits in the hospital for a coronary bypass operation in mid-October, he noticed a few incongruities other patients might not have. Machines that performed intertwined functions--dosing and delivering medication, for example--did not communicate with one another, and patient statistics detailed on paper were not in the hospital's electronic medical records. [More]