No. of Recommendations: 3
The OP article reads like a marketing release for medical AI by Microsoft. The Mayo Clinic is an excellent healthcare provider, but it is unclear how to expand its practices to other health care providers. There are budget and talent limitations. The article writes:
"Mayo is built on three core principles:
1. Doctors are paid flat salaries. No bonuses for more procedures, scans, tests or visits. ...
2. Doctors work as teams, not individual know-it-alls. ...
3. Patient-first culture. This was the most striking thing to us: Every person from surgeons to desk clerks seemed caring and kind. ..."
That sounds like the healthcare I am getting in Boston, and yet I'm sure I would be getting better care at Mayo (the best healthcare in the world). What am I missing? It's not #1, because under federal laws like the Stark Law, a doctor generally cannot get a bonus for ordering an independent lab test, scan, or blood work sent to an outside facility.
The article goes on to conclude: "Mayo's scarcest asset — coordinated diagnostic brilliance based on real data, cases, lab results and patients — is exactly what AI is getting good at."
The Microsoft AI might brilliantly diagnose based on real data, cases, lab results and patients. I hope so. I certainly agree that the U.S. healthcare system needs improvement. My doctors are good, but sometimes seem to get the diagnosis wrong.