David Schweikert Questions Experts On Using Artificial Intelligence To 'Revolutionize' Healthcare

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During a Joint Economic Committee hearing last week, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) spoke about incorporating artificial intelligence into healthcare.

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00:00Dr. Miller, first you already know I'm a bit of a fan of what you do and the way you think.

00:07Can you play a game with me instead of just reading a written question here?

00:11I come to you, you get to use the full power of what you believe exists today and is going

00:17to exist over the next year.

00:20How could you revolutionize medicine?

00:22How could you revolutionize the cost?

00:25How could you revolutionize making people well and the morality of ending and providing

00:32cures?

00:33A couple of answers.

00:36One, if you had high blood pressure, we have software that could titrate the medications

00:41for you.

00:42You could do that at home, you could send me a message, I could talk with you about

00:47exercise and in fact, software, in theory, could titrate lots of medications for lots

00:53of common conditions.

00:55You wouldn't even have to necessarily leave your house to see me.

00:59In fact, a lot of the time, you might not even need to see me.

01:03Then see me for acute concerns.

01:05You could automatically have your clinical preventive services ordered.

01:09You could have your colonoscopy ordered, if relevant, a PSA to check for prostate cancer.

01:16A lot of care could occur not just outside the walls of the clinic, but also even outside

01:24needing to see a physician.

01:26Then let's say you had a condition and you had to do a prior authorization, which my

01:31colleagues and I don't particularly enjoy doing.

01:35Imagine if the first layer of approval, a review, and then approval were automated and

01:40in near real time.

01:42We have that piece of legislation.

01:47Doctor, within that scope, you have the data of my wearables, my breath biopsy, whatever

01:56it may be.

01:57Do you see a world, at least at the basic level, the AI and then the algorithm that's

02:03attached to it could write the script?

02:07Absolutely.

02:08Okay.

02:09That was clean without a whole lot of struggle.

02:13Dr. Howard, this is a little bit different.

02:21You need to correct me because I was listening to your discussion about, okay, we need more

02:27people of variety who are writing AI and code.

02:31In some ways, maybe I have the utopian vision of it provides access for more people to be

02:38able to do technology.

02:40Most people have no idea how to write an app, but they can use the app to do technical jobs.

02:47Is there in some ways that, yes, there may be this hierarchy of here's over here my people

02:52writing code, doing those things, but over here, isn't this an empowerment for almost

02:56every American to do things that are much more complex?

02:59Yeah, it is.

03:00When I define AI literacy, it's not about creating computer scientists or coders.

03:05It's about making every citizen understand how to interact with AI to do their jobs better.

03:13It's allowing doctors to basically talk in their phone and transcribe it into the actual

03:20records that can then be shared with other doctors.

03:23That's really about it.

03:24That's a much more elegant way to phrase it.

03:26Ms. Uthir, what's my GDP growth?

03:31I have a personal fixation on where we are demographically as a country.

03:35We're getting old very fast.

03:37We often don't want to talk about it.

03:39We have to be brutally honest, 100% of calculated future debt for the next 30 years, interest,

03:46healthcare costs, and if a decade from now, we backfill Social Security.

03:50It's demographics.

03:52What is your vision of AI, the growth, the labor substitution?

03:58Does it save us?

03:59Yeah.

04:00Nothing can save us, but it can certainly make a major contribution towards the betterment

04:06of our government processes and potentially our debt.

04:09There's been various estimates, Congressman, on exactly how much AI could contribute to

04:14overall gross domestic product, the low end being something like at least 1.2% annually,

04:20but it goes up from there with one forecast for $15.7 trillion.

04:23I beg you to be slightly louder.

04:261.2% annually GDP boost and $15.7 trillion potential contribution to global economy by

04:322030, according to another report.

04:34I have all this data in a supplement to my testimony, and again, the estimates vary widely,

04:40but the bottom line is that almost all economists, political scientists, and consultancies realize

04:44that this is a great opportunity to once again build an output of digital technology companies

04:49in the world.

04:57Are American technologists right?

04:59Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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