Giving Dr. Google The Test

December 25th, 2006

A study on “Google Diagnosing”:

“They examined one year’s worth of case records published in the New England Journal of Medicine, without looking at the correct diagnoses. After they selected three to five search terms from the studies, Google came up with information that enabled the doctors to make the correct diagnoses, ones that matched what the journal had concluded in 58 percent of the cases. The computer got lymphoma and acute chest syndrome right, for example, but thought West Nile fever was graft vs. host disease.”

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