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No, AI is not "doing" this. The US medical system has created a multibillion dollar market for hospitals and insurers to play stupid billing games, and they are now using AI to make them even stupider.

Astra Taylor@astra.bsky.social

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Erik

@rekmarks.com

The failures of the US medical system are regulatory in nature, and in the absence of fundamental reforms it will use all available means to worsen its own dysfunction.

Erik

@rekmarks.com

On the plus side management has yet to increase workloads to make up for the increased efficiency from AI integrations in EMRs so my wife has been able to leave work less late every now and then.