Thank you for partaking in this conversation in good faith. This is a good conversation.
That being said, I absolutely hate that attitude. When you look at it as a percentage of annual spending you are right. When you look at it per capita you’re right, for the UK it’s only £7 per person if my math is right.
That perspective is an extremely privileged one. How many lives could be saved every year with that money? How much good could be done?
We agree that the overall spending and allocation of taxpayer money is inefficient. The difference that I see in this conversation is that you’re throwing up your hands and saying “the problem is too big, welp better not do anything about it”, while I’m saying “This is a great step in the right direction that can help people now”.
Can you give me some reasons to keep the royal family, rather than reasons not to get rid of it?
Hello, It us absolutely justified to be worried, tell your doctor you concerns, and ask your doctor questions about the use of AI. If you want some help putting together questions for your doctor lmk.
I’m involved with the development / integration of AI. From the specific text of the AI agreement, it looks like these are the AI tools you’re consenting to:
Transcription tool: This is a speech-to-text tool. It can differentiate between speakers.
Transcript -> clinical documentation tool. This takes the text of the transcript, interprets it, and generates clinical documentation based on it.
It does not seem like, as part of the agreement, it covers taking the clinical documentation and attempting to suggest diagnosis or care steps.
I am actually concerned by the “recording and transcript are automatically deleted” line. If your doctor reviews the generated clinical documentation vs the transcript, and misses something for whatever reason, if they are unsure about something in the future they can’t go back and reference the original audio / generated transcript to verify accuracy?
There are also concerns about how they are following HIPAA laws:
What model / service are they using?
Did they do their due diligence in deciding what service to use?
Have they looked at other cases where data companies have said they don’t persist/ sell your data and then they sold it / there was a breach of data that shouldn’t have persisted in the first place?
Do they anonymize personal information before they send it to whatever service they are using? -Note that this is not possible for transcription models, as they cannot know what text to anonymize/censor until the model generates the text. That doesn’t mean there are not HIPAA-compliant text transcription models, text transcription models can even be run locally on maybe consumer-grade devices, meaning the audio doesn’t have to be sent to a 3rd party.