Technology
Doctor-patient-computer relationships
When technology is only as good as the humans operating it
Denis McCauley | January 18th 2013 | @Technology
When a computer diagnoses a patient or prescribes a treatment, who’s to blame if the diagnosis or treatment proves incorrect? The scenario of computer-generated diagnosis in health care is not the distant future. IBM Watson, the supercomputer which famously defeated the all-time champions of the American quiz show Jeopardy a couple of years back, is part of pilot programmes under way at a handful of hospitals, including the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
