Venture capitalist: ‘The role of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years’
When billionaire entrepreneurs, investors and technologists talk, people listen. Vinod Khosla is all of those things—and he’s predicting the imminent demise of radiology at the hands of AI algorithms.
“The role of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years,” Khosla tells CNBC reporter Christina Farr.
Not so fast, say two radiology thought leaders.
Garry Choy, MD, MBA, says that, far from replacing rads, AI technology will free them up to do more high-order, complex thinking as well as spend more time with patients.
And Simon Rascovsky, MD, MS, tells Farr the specialty has heard it all before and still doesn’t have “clinically proven deep learning based applications outside of pilots and marketing hype.”
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Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.