Nurses logged symptoms. They recorded reactions, noted every small choice that kept a patient alive. Doctors documented diagnoses and treatment outcomes.
The medical notes were digitized, stripped of names. The notes were then fed into databases.
Data companies build diagnostic algorithms and sell them back to hospitals.
Somewhere in a glass tower, someone’s getting rich off the pattern recognition medical care workers spent years learning in blood and exhaustion. Those medical care workers will rarely share in the returns. That separation of cognitive work and returns is the rift.
Craig Van Pelt 