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Judy Faulkner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
459 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

Someone just the other day wrote to us and said using our AI for sepsis, they went from something like 2.5% of their patients got septic to zero, and they saved over 100 lives because of that.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

If you are a very odd patient with problems that your doctor has never seen before and doesn't know how to care for you and has tried this and this and this and nothing's really working, we can find the two other patients in the United States who are similar to you and have the three caregivers be able to talk to each other so they can take better care of you.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

No, we're not revealing who the patient is.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

And then other things we have in there is a diagnosis checker.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

Supposedly about 10% of diagnoses are wrong.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

And if you have the diagnosis wrong, the treatment's going to be wrong too.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

We may say the 32,500 patients, very similar to your patient, 55% of the time, this was the diagnosis given.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

The diagnosis you gave was used 0.2% of the time.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

It's not telling the physician to change anything, but it is giving the physician an alert that others have made different decisions so the physician can decide if he or she is right or if he or she is wrong, because that will affect the care.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

We have something called Best Care Choices for My Patient, and it will look at those thousands of patients similar to you

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

and we'll look at what meds were used or treatment was used and let you know how successful it was for that patient like you.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

So regardless of what your diagnosis was, here's all the meds that were tried.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

And here's what worked.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

So let's say it was blood pressure.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

It might say, this treatment helped the patient get a better blood pressure in four weeks.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

This other treatment was even better, but it took two months.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

Here's the incidence of heart attack.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

Here's the incidence of stroke.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

Here's the cost.

Freakonomics Radio
672. What Makes Judy Faulkner Run?

So that the clinician and the patient can talk together about what is the best for you.