Optometry least likely profession to be automated - Optometry Today

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Optometry least likely profession to be automated
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Optometrists may be safe from the rise of the machines, with the profession listed as one of those less likely to be done by a machine in the future. A new online tool, from National Public Radio in the US, shows just a 13.7% likelihood of the role of optometrists ...


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[AdminWolf]

how do you all feel about this? Accurate? Inaccurate? With the hand-wringing I've seen over Uber, I think there's a fair degree of anxiety within.

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[Larry Greidinger]

Probably true....no robot would put up with the crap thrown at us.

 

[Aaron Buthod]

No robot would accept the reimbursements from vision plans such as Davis and Spectera.

 

[Frederick Frost]

The only thing that protects us from being automated, is our medical decision-making ability, the ability for example realize that even though a test says suspicious results, it may be completely wrong because of certain factors,( example red disease).

If this medical decision-making ability is ever replaced by artificial intelligence, that will be it.

Be ready to scorch the atmosphere.


Fred

 

[David Hite]

A few times a week I will briefly mention how there was almost legislation passed in Utah that would have allowed an spectacle prescription to be made by an auto-refractor in a kiosk. Then I will tell the patient: "Your eyes are one of the reasons that wouldn't work."

AR's can give whacky results all the time. It doesn't mean that data is garbage, it actually can give you great clues as to what is going on. But to blindly RX based on that only....many people would be unhappy.

Dave