Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms?

January 11, 2012

January 11, 2012 | Vinod Khosla, the legendary Silicon Valley investor and founder of Khosla Ventures, discusses the wide-ranging impact of technology on medicine and healthcare. "Doctor Algorhtim," he writes, "will go from providing 'bionic assistance' to second opinions to assisting doctors to providing first opinions and as referral computers (with complete and accurate synopses and all possible hypotheses of the hardest cases) to the best 20% of the human breed doctors. And who knows what will happen beyond that?" Tech Crunch