I've had some discussions about AI in healthcare with a friend who is a MD and my interpretation of that is that initial face to face/spoken diagnosis is far from the bottle neck of healthcare. Rather the issue is that it is kind of always possible to find more things to work on. More potential cancers or various ailments. And the issue is that all the care that comes after that stage is what costs money and need to be prioritized. Though I expect the exact way how that prioritization works can differ quite a lot between different systems.

The point here being that adding AI diagnostics might improve on the quality of diagnosis but it might also potentially derail healthcare to some degree if the AI system doesn't question weather an investigation or treatment is actually worth it and should be prioritized. Then again, it might also be possible to make it prioritize more consistently and fairly...