Prominent venture capitalist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla took to the stage at the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., and repeated a speculation that has already attracted controversy from some physicians: that machines or algorithms could, in the near future, replace 80% of the functions of what a typical doctor does nowadays.
Khosla sees technology as a solution to major flaws in the current health care environment: misdiagnosis, cognitive incapacities or biases...