Clinical instinct vs AI: Which is best at keeping patients out of hospital?
AI requires black-and-white data, but real life does not work that way, one GP says.
How to stop patients ending up in hospital is Australia’s $60 billion question.
Politicians, taxpayers, doctors and, of course, patients want to avert hospital admissions as evidenced by the Federal Government’s plan for a Frequent Hospital Users Incentive as part of its Medicare reforms.
Almost 700,000 hospitalisations each year are potentially preventable, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
A decade ago, the cliched response may have been that ‘there’s an app for that’.
