Will medical artificial intelligence really replace traditional doctors?

Suzanne Bearne recently published an article on the BBC titled "Meetthe'doctors' whowill talk toyouwheneveryoulike." It briefly introduced the development of medical software, but can software really replace doctors?

"How are you feeling in the last month," Joy said. "This allows me to know your recent status."

Joy carried out a further check on me and asked more questions: Am I sad? Am I worried? When I said that the pressure was a bit big, Joy told me some ways to relieve stress.

Joy is like my advisor or life mentor, but in fact the above dialogue happened between me and the chat robot. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can sense people's emotions and provide mental health support. Everything above is Made through Facebook Messenger.

Welcome to health care in the digital age, where people can talk to their doctors by tapping the screen.

Joy was created by Danny Freed after a friend committed suicide. "This incident has given me an idea that technology definitely has ways to help people with mental illness," he said. "I realized that we recorded all the data and formulas about physical health, but we didn't pay any attention to mental health." He said that Joy encourages people to say their mental health and feelings, and Joy will provide some scientific Suggestions, tips.

But how do we know if this is useful? Freed does not exaggerate the role of this software. "Joy is not a clinic or treatment," he said. "Joy is more like a friend or mentor." Freed realized that credibility is indeed a problem, so he recently hired an expert in emotional disorders as a consultant.

Since Facebook opened the Messenger platform to developers in 2016, there are now more than 100,000 chat robots on the platform, many of which are health and psychological related.

For example, Weobot can help users record emotions and find early symptoms of depression. Weobot was founded by Alison Darcy, a clinical psychologist at Stanford University. Weobot also uses cognitive behavioral technology. As you learn more about it, it will see a lot of laws and suggest some ways to alleviate bad or negative thoughts.

Joy is free, but Weobot will charge $39 per month after 14 sessions. However, considering that the treatment cost of psychiatrist is generally 30-200 US dollars / hour, digital doctors are still very attractive.

Dr. AliParsa, president of Babylon, a digital healthcare application, believes that the trend in mobile healthcare is undoubtedly beneficial. He said: "We should treat health care as Google treats information -- use technology to make it popular, regardless of the user's whereabouts, income, can put the doctor into his pocket."

Babylon's scientists, engineers, and clinicians built a repository using more than 3 million medical cases. Then Babylon provided information and advice based on user's symptoms through machine learning and natural language processing. Dr. Parsa said: "It can be understood, inferred, predicted, and learned from reality like a real doctor."

Babylon users can also schedule appointments for doctors and counselling, starting from £25.

The medical chat robot Your.MD has raised $10 million in funding in June. It works like Babylon and provides early treatment information based on the user's medical records, symptoms and personal characteristics (gender, age, etc.). Your.MD will also recommend local medical services and products to help users treat. Its president Matteo Berlucchi said: "Your.MD is better than real doctors. It has no prejudice or preconceptions, but it has a super brain." Like Dr. Parsa, he is very confident about his products. He said: "Babylon scientists predict that we will soon be able to surpass physicians in most cases to better diagnose and prevent personal health problems."

However, these two people also believe that doctors also have the advantage that they cannot overcome. Berlucchi said: "They are empathetic, they can see you, hear your breath, look in your eyes, check your ears, give you a blood test, etc."

Many people are skeptical of medical software, especially many medical software is not regulated.

Karen Taylor, director of the British Medical Solutions Center in Detroit, said: "Patients should not rely entirely on medical software. There are many situations where the software cannot handle it."

Richard Vautrey, Acting Chairman of the British Medical Association's General Practice Committee, said: "Although artificial intelligence and machine learning can identify information and diagnose illnesses, I still feel that we need trained doctors or medical experts to study the conditions behind the existing symptoms. ”

But these software can indeed improve itself by learning a large amount of data.

Claire Novorol, chief medical officer and co-founder of medical technology startup Ada, predicts that their applications will integrate more data from experimental test results, genetic testing, and wearable devices. It can identify and record health trajectories. Identify possible problems in advance.

She said: "Ada is not just a continuous health assistant. It also supports long-term health data monitoring for active predictions." He believes that the relationship between doctors and patients of artificial intelligence will be "more collaborative."

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