Lexology October 2, 2017
The not too distant future…
Janet feels unwell. She consults an app on her phone, which asks an increasingly sophisticated series of diagnostic questions. The app also takes in data from Janet’s fitness trackers that monitor heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar. The app decides that Janet’s symptoms look serious, and it arranges a video chat with a human doctor to discuss options so that potentially bad news can be presented in a more ‘human’ way. The doctor has access to Janet’s data remotely, along with access to a more sophisticated diagnostic, Artificial Intelligence. During that consultation Janet is booked into a clinic for medical imaging scans to aid in further diagnosis. The results of the scans are interpreted...
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