Use of AI in medicine has increased efficiency across the board, from drug research to patient diagnosis
A new tool that uses GPT artificial intelligence allows doctors to create electronic health records while focusing more on their patients than their notes.
The tool from medical chain Carbon Health Technologies Inc., released Monday, creates a medical chart by fusing audio recordings of patient appointments with other data, Bloomberg reported.
The new tool, which is based on OpenAI Inc.'s GPT-4, also generates codes for diagnostics and billing in addition to patient care instructions.
The sheer power of GPT has revolutionised the AI industry, and
the chatbot ChatGPT has raised ethical issues due to its human-like dialogue
and occasionally inaccurate responses.
The use of AI in medicine
has increased efficiency across the board, from drug research to patient
diagnosis, the report suggested.
“These new developments in AI
have really all of a sudden gotten to a very exciting place,” said Carbon
Health Chief Executive Officer Eren Bali.
Part of Carbon
Health’s mission is to use technology to improve care and increase a
patient’s face-time with a provider. “We are rethinking everything we built
and saying, 'In a world where we have very powerful language models, how
would we do these things differently?'” he said.
Carbon Health's new tool records and transcribes patient
appointments using Amazon Transcribe Medical, a HIPAA-eligible service
designed to accurately capture the names of medications, procedures, and
diseases, combining it with other information to create a more detailed
record.
Nearly 90% of transcripts are accepted by the provider
without edits, and the records are more detailed than manual ones, the
company said.
Clinics can see more patients without straining
their schedules by using this tool, as it takes less than four minutes to
create a medical record, the report explained.
"As doctors, you
get trained to do one thing, which is take care of patients and save lives,
and then you find your day is filled with these administrative tasks," said
Carbon Health’s Chief Clinical Innovation Officer Caesar Djavaherian, who
also still works in the clinic.
"There’s already a shortage of doctors in the country, and
frankly, this type of technology will make doctors more likely to stay in
their jobs and actually be able to see more patients,” he said.
Furthermore,
Carbon Health, used by the company’s more than 130 clinics across 12 states,
uses an electronic health records platform to automate more processes, such
as placing prescription and lab orders, scheduling follow-up appointments,
and making referrals.
“The first iteration of electronic health
records was for billing purposes, or as a substitute for paper,” Djavaherian
said. “Now, you’ve got this incredible technology that can do so much more.
It can enhance care.”
