Does human-in-the-loop work in health care?

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All the time I’ve coated AI in well being care, firms growing and promoting the tech have been pawning off legal responsibility for AI-generated errors onto medical doctors.

For instance, care expertise firm WellSky is cautious to verify it’s “protecting a human within the loop and never growing any unintended penalties round medical resolution assist” that the corporate may “[end] up on the entrance web page of the Wall Avenue Journal for, fairly frankly,” CEO Invoice Miller stated eventually 12 months’s Oracle Well being Summit.