How to get a PhD in 20 Tweets (Part 2)

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Always a hostage to fortune when making such predictions! But we now have digital scribes and I reckon we will be close to this world by 2030, if not there. I believe that everything described is now technically possible, except maybe for the curator agents which are a few years away.

Indeed. One research challenge is to take the massive data sets potentially generated in a smart environment and find ways to make them clinically useful. “Old fashioned” notes maybe said too little but smart environments will likely say too much. Solveable but currently unsolved.

Sometimes digital health evaluations focus on hard outcomes when process benefits are more likely. It is hard to demonstrate morbidity and mortality changes due to an EHR because so many other things also need to go right eg changes in human decisions and processes
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The cause is likely multiple I suspect. Yes it could be journal acceptance practices leading to a distortion in the pool of published values, it could also be because of researchers "p hacking" ie looking for analyses which produce 'favourable' outcomes. It could how common tools calculate AUCs!