But, says Reeve, the system is not intended to be used as a replacement for professional judgment.
Yuval Noah Harari's remarkable new book, Homo Deus, goes even further, anticipating the replacement of professional as well as semi-skilled labour by "highly intelligent algorithms".
It is a first-aid measure only, not a replacement for professional medical care, which should be obtained on an emergency basis.
This is reflected in the replacement of professional nurses who have higher degrees with unskilled aides in almost every practice setting to some degree.
ASK most Americans about pay disputes at great institutions, and they will probably think of the management lockout imposed by the National Football League last year, which led to the temporary replacement of professional referees with amateurs.That, however, ended relatively quickly, without serious damage to anyone's pay or to the prestige of the franchise.
This role-shifting could result in the replacement of professional ethics with marketplace or business ethics.
If health care is treated as a commodity, this may result in the replacement of professional ethics with business ethics.
Conversely, for women experiencing low levels of abuse, social support may be seen as a replacement for professional input and women's perceived need for maternity services may be smaller.
Therefore we may conclude that such a model can provide relevant information and thus - considering the multi-factorial aetiology of fall events - could be valuable not as a replacement of professional assessment scores and tools, but as a supplementary method which is feasible to be used outside of a supervised clinical environment.
The above information is not an adequate replacement for professional training from the American Red Cross.
