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Deep Learning on Electronic Medical Records is Doomed to Fail

 Originally published in Moderndescartes.com, March 22, 2022. A few years ago, I worked on a project to investigate the potential of machine learning to transform healthcare through modeling electronic medical records. I walked away deeply disillusioned with the whole field and I really don’t think that the field needs machine learning right now. What it