7/3/31 - Life with AI

The dental clinic

Oh right.

Of course.

They’ve got me starting in the dental clinic.

That was the reason our application got accepted in the first place.

Marty took me to the medical block this morning.

Met up with Dr. Lin.

She’s the medical services coordinator.

Sharp and kind of intimidating lady.

She mostly had questions.

How many chairs per thousand residents?

How many Dentatechs do they need per thousand?

What services can we provide?

What about anesthesia?

Local and general anesthesia?

What records do we capture in the dental setting?

Optical, radiographic, 2D, 3D, etc.

Salivary diagnostics for genetic and inflammatory markers and microbiome assays.

How can all that integrate with each resident’s medical records?

How can that aid in codiagnostics?

I gave Dr. Lin a quick overview of the typical dental-medical connections.

Cardiovascular risk, stroke risk, dementia, Alzheimer’s, sleep apnea, acid reflux, diabetes,  and on and on.

She was aware of all of it.

She just wanted to know how I’d stitch the dental and the medical records together.

What metrics are worth combining, that kind of thing.

And here’s why.

In Tessera, all medical records are owned by the residents.

Not the clinics.

Not the doctors.

Doesn’t matter what clinic you’re in.

Medical, ophthalmology, endocrine, cancer, longevity, epigenetics, whatever.

The medical AI takes all those records and builds the most accurate health record I’ve ever seen.

It all adds to the medical research data pool, and shares it with your personal AI.

I remember reading a clause somewhere in the Tessera’s TOS that all this info is deidentified and pooled.

I mean, with all this data you can catch some conditions so early it’s crazy.

It’s hard to explain, but with this much information and this level of personalized medicine, being unwell either means you had a freak accident or it’s a choice.

You can prevent almost everything with this level of personalization.

Of course, the residents still own their record, and some even opt out, but they have to sign a waiver any time they visit a clinic.

It’s crazy to me that anyone opts out of this.

But the end result is that the doctors are no longer the gatekeepers.

In fact, all the medical and allied medical providers are expected to use AI to help with diagnosis.

Dr. Lin considers anything less to be malpractice.

But most of us aren’t “practicing” the way we used to, anyway.

We’re just glorified, over-educated customer service reps now.