Comment Re:Differential and management are not the same. (Score 1) 200
You have it wrong. The list is not to be put in human hands. The human is responsible for wrong diagnostics much more often than the software. This is known for a long time. This was already the case 40 years ago for some specific diseases where the software (expert system) was better than a human to diagnose the disease. Now, the spectrum is broaden because data is available to take advantage of machine learning. It is known, such systems are better than the expert physician at diagnostic. It is beaten only by a panel of experts. A panel of experts to diagnose someone is very rare.
What do you believe the physician do when performing a diagnostic? Look at symptoms, compare with data, evaluate probability you have disease A, B, C,..., request more tests if he cannot determine between many diseases, iterate. The physician cannot process the extraordinary amount of data a computer can to evaluate the options, probabilities and pick the suitable and best tests to discriminate when in doubt. That's why a physician can easily be beaten by the machine at this game. So, why going back to a physician once you have the best diagnostic possible?
We can even imagine the machine can also pick the best treatment, provided it is continuously fed with data from million of patients and progress from different treatments for a given disease.