A brief panel-style conversation among Dr. Winters, Robert Whitfield MD, and another speaker about the role of data and artificial intelligence in healthcare. The participants discuss platforms that could help clinicians tailor care to individual patients, debating whether such tools augment or replace clinical experience. They express optimism about tools that aid decision-making, concerns about teaching students to interpret clinical signs in the era of data/AI, and note wide variability in provider backgrounds and patient access to physicians.
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It's a really interesting place to be in the, in the field of health care.
Now, the. To your point like that whatever those platforms become, whether you know, your specific.
Platform or another platform that utilizes the data to help the clinicians better respond to the individuality that, you know, that is a big step forward.
Massive, massive stuff.
Because it just seems like it's a very.
And I'd have to say I would not want to be trying to teach a medical student today about what is, you know, how they should be interpreting the data, the physical signs, the symptoms, the exam. And it sounds like challenge that I, you know, not up for anymore. I just, I just think of like, man, you know, anything that would help, obviously, it's, it's great. And then the, the. Does that replace.
Experience if it augments.
Them to help them make better decisions for, for clients? I think clients just, you know, they're looking for help and I don't care.
How you get the information as long as you're helping them.
And then a lot of times they're.
Never seeing, you know, a, A physician.
And that's not to say that the.
I'm not discrediting any provider at all. Being a provider is not easy.
Doesn't matter what your credentials.
Exactly.
Exactly. And if, if the tools are available to help at any level, help the patients.
That's what we're talking about. I'm not talking about a, you know, specific.
Right.
Because I get people coming from all over the place, from multi levels of, of training and disciplines and thought processes and, you know, every program under the sun, and I was like. And, you know, they're always going to ask, oh, doctor. Dr. Winters, are you familiar with Dr. Smith's program?
And you're like, it's 10 million out there, but I'll do my, I'll do my homework and let you know.
No, I.
Probably not, but.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Just. That's what it is. So. Well, I mean, I hope, just like.
You hope, that the data and the artificial intelligence and all the things that.
Seem to hold so much promise for us actually do fulfill some of the expectations and make it simpler for us to care for patients.
