Blog: How artificial intelligence is altering the landscape of liability for the healthcare industry
Missed, inappropriately delayed, or simply just wrong – these are all types of human diagnostic errors hampering healthcare systems and not only are they more common than you might think, some experts believe these errors to be the third-leading cause of death in the US writes Timothy Boyce, healthcare practice leader at CFC Underwriting.
In the UK, as many as one in six patients in NHS hospitals and GPs’ surgeries are being misdiagnosed.
Putting the varying reasons why errors occur to one side, these startling statistics will no
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