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Microsoft might replace your doctor

by on27 February 2015


You are suffering from a blue screen of death

Software giant Microsoft might be able to resolve a staff shortage in doctors and nurses with AI. 

Silicon Valley-based Sense.ly is working to bring a human face to telemedicine using Redmond's Kinect-powered ‘nurse avatar.’

This can provide patient monitoring and follow-up care. Apparently it talks with patients in an incredibly lifelike manner. Probably because they have access to a patient’s records and asks appropriate questions related directly to the patient’s past history or present complaints.

The Kinect for Windows Team said the AI nurse had a pleasant, caring demeanor that puts patients at ease.

San Mateo Medical Center is one of several major hospitals recently added the Microsoft gear to its staff and found that value of such solutions in handling patients who suffer from long-term conditions that require frequent monitoring, such high blood pressure or diabetes”.

Patients did not have to wait in line to see a doctor or nurse.

The Kinect-based solution can be installed in a patient’s home or in a local clinic. Not to mention, some sick people may avoid monitoring their health due to long waits and inflexible office-hours;

Healthcare professionals will be able to focus on the truly sick, leaving the more trivial or routine things to the non-human.

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