Epic Goes All In On Generative AI In Healthcare – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

Using GenAI to help with EMR reportedly saves more than five hours per week ChatGPT celebrated its first birthday last week. It feels like its launch was ages ago, considering how much the publicly available model advanced in the past twelve months. It has become the assistant I always longed for, and given the monumental change it brings, my research focus has also shifted toward this emerging and exciting topic. And of course, [we've seen the first studies]( analyzing its potential. After Lancet launched Lancet Digital Health and Nature Publishing Group launched npj Digital Medicine, now the New England Journal of Medicine also [launched NEJM AI]( a new medical journal meant "to identify and evaluate state-of-the-art applications of artificial intelligence to clinical medicine. Wonderful news, but I cannot wait to find out how incredibly expensive it will be to publish in that journal. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [HOW EPIC IS USING AI TO CHANGE THE WAY EHRS WORK]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Since Epic announced that it would tap Microsoft to accelerate generative AI-powered tools to help clinicians save time while using their electronic medical record systems, I've been curious about what it might look like in action. Now Sumit Rana, head of research and development, gave an interview about that. "One site reported average savings of five-and-a-half hours per week. Another one looked at time spent by doctors after clinical hours, and they saw a 76% reduction in that time spent after clinic hours." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? A paradigm change is happening in front of our eyes and this interview lets us glimpse into how such solutions improve step-by-step to fit actual clinical needs. [GPT-4 OUTPERFORMED HUMAN READERS IN DIAGNOSING COMPLEX CLINICAL CASES]( --------------------------------------------------------------- "A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says GPT-4 correctly diagnosed 52.7% of complex cases compared to only 36% of medical journal readers." Another example of media sensationalism: as if a poll in a medical journal is equivalent to how physicians actually work in practice with a lot of responsibility. It's not. Still, it's good news for the generative AI community. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? The quest of researchers to compare the accuracy of GPT-4 to that of practicing physicians is still on. [INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Comfortably working with AI and having a scientific understanding of it is becoming a must-have skill in medicine. You don't need to become a deep-learning expert, but having a general overview will keep you up-to-date. We designed this course to prepare you to make the most of this revolution. You won't design neural networks, but will grasp what AI is (and isn't) good for, when to use it, when to trust it, when is it safe, and when dangerous. Come as you are, and test the first lessons for free. [ENROLL HERE]( [WHAT DO WE NEED TO HAVE AI-EQUIPPED NANOBOTS IN MEDICINE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- AI nanobots promise a future where diseases could become obsolete, thanks to early disease detection, treatment at a cellular level, and enhancement of physical and cognitive abilities – according to the picture painted by sci-fi writers. We have significant progress on the micro-level, but the nanoworld is still further away, although we see some progress in areas like nanomedicine. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? The nanoworld is fascinating and holds great promises but we better stay on the ground with our expectations: we are not quite there yet. [WITNESSING THE BIRTH OF MULTIMODALITY]( --------------------------------------------------------------- We are witnessing the birth of multimodal large language models! ChatGPT allows third-party tools to be integrated into the original model and it means you can now create highly realistic videos from text! I interacted with ChatGPT to prompt it to create a video for me. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? M-LLMs [will be crucial for the progress of healthcare]( as they will serve as the "central intelligence hub" between many systems and AI solutions. [AMA ISSUES NEW PRINCIPLES FOR AI DEVELOPMENT, DEPLOYMENT & USE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The American Medical Association (AMA) released new principles for augmented intelligence (AI) development, deployment, and use. It covers 7 key concepts. These are: 1. Oversight, 2. Transparency, 3. Disclosure and documentation, 4. Generative AI, 5. Privacy and security, 6. Bias mitigation, and 7. Liability. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? An important step toward designing a consistent governance structure for extended realities in healthcare. [AI’S UNFORESEEN MEDICAL DISCOVERIES: CURIOUS UNUSUAL ASSOCIATIONS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Determining patients’ race from chest x-rays alone or diagnosing type 2 diabetes from short audio samples. AI can do it and we don’t know how. There are fascinating examples of unusual associations. Every now and then AI has curious medical discoveries, detecting things that – to the best of our human knowledge – should not be detectable from the input data. In these cases, the medical detective work has a new aim: to understand how the AI came to the conclusion we, humans overlooked for decades. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? While the black-box nature of AI can sometimes be scary, it also helps us understand where we need to develop our understanding. MORE NEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE --------------------------------------------------------------- DEFIBRILLATOR DRONES – [Everdrone First on Scene validated by study in Lancet Digital Health]( 12.7% REDUCTION – [AI chatbot reduces depression in prenatal and postnatal women]( DELICATE BALANCE – [Generative AI could revolutionize health care — but not if control is ceded to big tech]( HELLO ANTHROBOTS – [Tiny living robots made from human cells surprise scientists]( [color-forwardtofriend-48.png](mailto:berci@medicalfuturist.com) [color-facebook-48.png]( [color-youtube-48.png]( [color-linkedin-48.png]( [color-twitter-48.png]( [color-instagram-48.png]( © The Medical Futurist 2023 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Medical Futurist · Budapest · Budapest, Pest 1118 · Hungary