The appeal of medicine as biostatistics improves diagnostic prediction algorithms

Are pre-meds aware of the (possible) potential of computer science to drastically change and/or reduce the role of physicians? Biostatisticians have been working away on machine learning prediction algorithms to diagnose patients that could, eventually, be incorporated in real time into electronic health records. Although such algorithms have low explanatory power at present (usually around 20%, so says the biostatistician I work with), the potential is there and progress is rapid in... The appeal of medicine as biostatistics improves diagnostic prediction algorithms
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