The quality of healthcare is no longer determined by medicine and its physicians., potentially revolutionary role for AI in health care. Second, Dr. Pearl’s co-author for the book is none other than ChatGPT itself. Indeed, ChatGPT wrote some of the material, often in response to comments by Dr. Pearl.
The mistake was not to recognize the central role and equal importance of primary care. For example, research demonstrates that adding 10 primary care clinicians to a population of 100,000 people increases life expectancy to nearly three times more than that achieved by, instead, adding 10 specialists.
The cause of this is what Dr. Pearl calls “skimping.” People are paying the same but getting less care because of i) high deductible health insurance; ii) shifting costs from federal programs to private insurance, where costs are passed on to subscribersSo, costs are rising as care deteriorates; meanwhile, many healthcare CEOs make millions each year. This is the economic crisis Dr. Pearl predicts will lead to change.Now, let’s consider how AI can help.
By similarly informing and monitoring activities, AI could make hospitals safer, prevent deaths and disabilities from misdiagnosis, and save lives from unnecessary medical errors.