{"id":9619,"date":"2018-07-27T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2018-08-03T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:01:17","slug":"why-isnt-machine-learning-more-widely-used-for-medical-diagnoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-isnt-machine-learning-more-widely-used-for-medical-diagnoses\/9619\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn\u2019t Machine Learning More Widely Used for Medical Diagnoses?"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Quora.com May 30, 2018 I used to scratch my head asking the same question until I had an enlightening conversation with a close friend of mine who works for a large healthcare consulting company. He led me to the realization that a physician&#8217;s agenda is much different than a machine learning practitioner&#8217;s agenda, which is much different than a lawmaker&#8217;s agenda, which is much different than a hospital administrator&#8217;s agenda. In the spirit of full disclosure, I am a medical doctor with a machine learning background, and I use ML on a daily basis to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-isnt-machine-learning-more-widely-used-for-medical-diagnoses\/9619\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Quora.com May 30, 2018 I used to scratch my head asking the same question until I had an enlightening conversation with a close friend of mine who works for a large healthcare consulting company. He led me to the realization that a physician&#8217;s agenda is much different than a machine learning practitioner&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9622,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}