AI Advancements in Healthcare

The development of AI within the health market is booming, and there are more and more studies, reports and success stories. With the increasing demand on our healthcare system, longer waiting times, less doctors, is the advancement of artificial intelligence in health perfectly timed to help solve these problems?

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Let me share some news articles relating to healthcare AI:

Cancer breakthrough as doctors claim A.I. X-ray will save hundreds

Cancer patients in Scotland are being diagnosed more speedily – and treated sooner – thanks to a ground-breaking project using artificial intelligence (AI).

In a move experts believe could save hundreds of lives every year, AI is being used to scan X-rays as they are carried out – detecting tumours within seconds.

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NHS to offer patients AI physio

The NHS is planning to roll out an "artificial intelligence-run physiotherapy clinic" later this year, The Guardian reports, noting that the clinic will enable patients to have same-day virtual consultations with an AI-powered physio via an app. Flok Health is the first platform of its kind to be approved by the Care Quality Commission as a registered healthcare provider. Read the full article here

DrugGPT: new AI tool could help doctors prescribe medicine in England

A new AI tool developed at Oxford University aims to tackle both those problems. DrugGPT offers a safety net for clinicians when they prescribe medicines and gives them information that may help their patients better understand why and how to take them. Read the full article here

It is not just the advancements of AI that are making the headlines... here are some other benefits AI is having in the health space:

AI Can Make Healthcare More Empathic

Doctors and droids team up for better patient care with a study showing ‘quality of the information provided’ and ‘the empathy or bedside manner provided" improved when doctors were supported via generated alternative replies using ChatGPT. Read the full article here

Some doctors are worse than ChatGPT tech at giving eye problem advice, test used in study finds

The technology behind ChatGPT scored better at assessing eye problems and providing advice than non-specialist doctors, a new study has found. A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that GPT-4, the large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI, performed nearly as well as specialist eye doctors in a written multiple-choice test.

The AI model, which is known for generating text based on the vast amount of data it is trained on, was tested against doctors at different stages of their careers, including junior doctors without a specialism, as well as trainee and expert eye doctors.

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AI Facilitates Better Doctor-Patient Communication

A recent study from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that although AI-generated replies did not shorten the response time of physicians, they did reduce their cognitive load by supplying an empathetic draft. This enables physicians to edit rather than create responses from scratch.

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