Dr. Watson: How IBM’s supercomputer could improve health care
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dr-watson-how-ibms-supercomputer-could-improve-health-care/2011/09/14/gIQAOZQzXK_story.html
Watson could someday be a standard diagnostic tool. Its ability to make sense of a universe of data would be far beyond that of any person or team of experienced physicians.Ah...there is the rub !! future doctors beware !!Watson could also dramatically change the way medical services are delivered. Once a machine with diagnostic expertise, no need for sleep and a proven track record can provide quality care, will it really be necessary for a physician to see every patient? We might want to create a new category of medical professional: people trained to examine patients and convey their symptoms to a system such as Watson. These lower-paid practitioners could help manage the growing number of patients with chronic conditions such as obesity and diabetes, practicing medicine without going to medical school.
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Obama Medicare Cuts Target Providers, Then Beneficiaries For Savings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/president-obama-targets-p_n_969991.html
WASHINGTON -- President Obama wants to extract $320 billion in savings from the health care system in his push to trim the deficit, starting with cutting payments to Medicare and Medicaid providers and ending with making beneficiaries pay more.
Among the hikes under consideration are:
- Increasing the deductible for doctors' services (part B of Medicare) by $25 in 2017, 2019 and 2021,
- Requiring $100 co-payments for home health care visits,
- Charging an extra 15 percent premium on people who have especially generous Medi-gap plans,
- Hiking the premiums by 15 percent for Medicare recipients who earn from $85,000 to about $210,000, to raise about $20 billion.
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