“Knockin ‘on Heaven”: a computer in the United States learn to predict the date of death – Moskovsky Komsomolets

The system is developed in the Medical Center Beth Izreyel

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The American Medical Center Beth Izreyel announced supercomputer examining large amounts of data, is able to calculate the date of death of the patient. It is reported that the prediction accuracy of 96%. However, while this applies to patients with severe disease, Smer which is expected within a month.

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The project is headed by Dr. Steve Horng, who explained that the computer is, of course, does not replace the doctor, but it can help him . According to the magazine “Around the World”, a computer incorporated information on more than 250 thousand clinical cases over the last 30 years. This information is a computer program compares with the testimony of life of the patient – pressure, blood oxygen level, blood chemistry data, etc. This helps to quickly diagnose and even determine how much the patient is still able to lend, if the case is very difficult.

Using the data on what happened to the other patients in the past few years with similar symptoms and analysis, the computer predicts the development Today’s event for a particular patient.

However, as noted Horng, doctors try not to use your computer to forecast the date of death, since its main task – to help the doctor properly diagnose. In particular, the computer can detect rare or hidden diseases that doctors may not notice.