{"id":27192,"date":"2016-06-25T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:12:06","slug":"computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors","title":{"rendered":"Computers are better at diagnosing and treating patients than doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would seem that no one\u2019s immune from the effects imposed by our increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence and robotics \u2014 not even doctors. As research from Indiana University has revealed, a new computer program is doing a better job than doctors when it comes to both diagnosing and treating health conditions \u2014 and by a significant margin.<\/p>\n<p>The system, which uses decision making processes similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2011\/02\/elementary-my-dear-watson-jeopardy.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeopardy-bot, Watson<\/a>, was recently given the task of analyzing and predicting the health outcomes of 500 real individuals. After plugging in the relevant data \u2014 which mostly had to do with clinical depression and chronic diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes \u2014 researchers Kris Hauser and Casey Bennett compared the outcomes to the simulated treatment prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5983991\/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors?utm_medium=sharefromsite\">http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5983991\/computers-are-better-at-diagn...refromsite<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that no one\u2019s immune from the effects imposed by our increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence and robotics \u2014 not even doctors. As research from Indiana University has revealed, a new computer program is doing a better job than doctors when it comes to both diagnosing and treating health conditions \u2014 and by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61398,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192\/revisions\/61398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}