What I Read: US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use AI Algorithms

https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-pay-doctors-use-ai-algorithms/

Tom Simonite
Business
11.10.2020 07:00 AM
The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms
The artificial intelligence programs can diagnose eye disease in diabetics and complications in stroke patients.


“The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently said it would pay for use of two AI systems…. the agency faced a question with philosophical dimensions: How do you value the work of a piece of software that by design performs a task typically done by a highly skilled human? It came up with two very different answers.”