The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
Journal Title: Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal - Year 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2
Abstract
Radiology was the earliest specialty to adopt digital technology. The Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) enabled radiology departments to digitise images. In 2000, only 8 percent of U.S. hospitals were using digital imaging and by 2008, more than 75 percent of U.S. hospitals did. With digital imaging just a click away, Wachter rues that clinicians now rarely meet to discuss cases in the radiology department. He posits that in the future, artificial intelligence will create a virtual radiologist able to diagnose a myriad of diseases. In a speciality that is about visual pattern recognition, will artificial intelligence replace the radiologists? In contrast, electronic medical records and computerised prescribing caught on a decade later than digital imaging in the U.S. Electronic health records had a difficult start with many staff finding it time consuming due to poor user interfaces and connectivity. This has led patients to complain that physicians are losing their personal touch by spending more time on their computers rather than direct contact with them.
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Sharaf Ibrahim
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