Can Artificial Intelligence be helpful for healthcare professionals?
Doctor explores the digital application — Diagnosis Pad.
With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) readily available at our fingertips, it’s no surprise that its use is leeching into all industries. The healthcare industry is certainly not immune to this.
AI Applications
There are a multitude of applications that exist already on the market that use ambient AI to listen and record the conversation between a patient and a doctor. This provides the healthcare practitioner with the ability to reduce the amount of typing and use of the computer during a consultation. However, these applications come with one big caveat. Security. Though most are deemed as being encrypted, they still require consultation and sometimes patient data to be sent online to a server for processing and storage.
It has not been long since Australia last saw a cyberattack on patient health data, nor the National Health Service in the UK. So one must ask the question, how safe is our data actually? And do we feel comfortable with this sensitive information being sent to the cloud or other servers.
Whilst some may be ambivalent, a number of practitioners are hesitant to use such applications for patient safety reasons. Not only is the consultation data sent, the audio is also recorded and stored. Ordinarily, this may not pose to be an issue, however, in the wrong hands for whatever reason, the recordings may be misconstrued and used as a weapon against a healthcare practitioner and or the patient. It is no wonder then, why a large proportion of healthcare professionals are wary of using such technology.
So What’s the Solution? — Diagnosis Pad
Diagnosis Pad is a patent pending state-of-the-art application that uses Artificial Intelligence to aid practitioners with diagnosis, guidance, transcriptions and notes all in real-time, on-device and private.
It does this by using background ambient audio heard during consultations, the system transcribes audio fragments and processes them locally on the device without any cloud processing. Providing the practitioner with information as the consultation evolves.
The application, like many others has the ability to write notes, however it, unlike other applications, provides real-time recommendations on questions to ask and provides the user with the top three differential diagnoses according to the conversation that has been had.
The user is able to click on the differential diagnoses and the artificial intelligence provides reasoning behind its thoughts with appropriate links to reputable health websites for verification. The diagnoses are context aware according to the conversation between the patient and doctor.
By enabling real-time analysis and decision-making, the application improves healthcare professionals’ ability to make accurate diagnoses and develop effective treatment plans, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes.
The user is then able to save these sessions on their device, label them accordingly and ‘share’ them to the patient file.
These features are beneficial to medical practitioners but also particularly useful for practitioners who have limited internet connectivity, or who may be practising rurally with limited support and need some guidance. It is also useful for medical students who may be learning or studying for exams. Similarly, it can be used for triaging patients by administrative or nursing staff to allocate an appropriate consultation.
The application is used to guide practitioners rather than replace them. We all know that even the best Artificial Intelligence can make mistakes. However, it does open the doors for much needed improvements and advances in the medical field.
Conclusion
This innovative system can improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency by leveraging artificial intelligence and real-time data processing. Its seamless design and comprehensive guidance capabilities make it a significant aid for highly time constrained practitioners. The use of the application in practice is exciting and I cannot wait to see how it develops as time goes on.
Try the application for free and if you have any questions or comments, drop a line to the developers here.
I hope you have found this article helpful.
Take care and stay healthy,
Dr Nora x
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