Caught up with a friend, who is currently training to become a doctor in the US. It feels like there is a goldmine of problems that are potentially tractable to LLMs and software.
It was very clear from his description that the system is structured towards enabling billing.
- E.g. in EMR, only diagnoses and procedures are structured (i.e. there is an exact code), everything else is plaintext. There can be a lot of significant information in plaintext that is used to e.g. provide reasoning process or defend against potential lawsuit. (I did X instead Y because of ABC).
- The actual customers of a lot of existing software are hospital administrators, which is why the UX for end users sucks.
Do I want to focus on this problem domain?