In the midst of a labor shortage, the healthcare industry has explored generative AI and the potential to eliminate mundane and tedious tasks. On Wednesday, two established organizations — google cloud and mayo clinic — announced A technology-focused partnership.
Mayo Clinic will pilot new HIPAA-compliant Google Cloud services. Enterprise search in Generative AI App Builder — Gen App Builder for short. The purpose of this partnership is to make it easier for clinicians to search a seemingly endless repository of patient data.
For clinicians, gathering the information they need to care for their patients can be a very time-consuming and tedious task. This information, such as clinical guidelines, research papers, and patient data in electronic medical records, is often stored in a variety of locations using a variety of formats.
Gen App Builder enables providers to create data search systems with conversational capabilities powered by Google. large scale language model. Mayo Clinic chief technology officer Vish Anantraman said in an interview that the service is designed to harmonize data and make it easier to interpret.
The Mayo Clinic hopes the tool will unlock sources of information that clinicians typically cannot easily search, such as images, complex medical histories, labs, and genomics. Anantraman noted that easier access to these insights could lead to faster treatment and higher patient satisfaction.
For example, a doctor wants information about insurance status, medical history, and other information about black obstetric patients between the ages of 30 and 40. Using the tool’s conversational AI capabilities, the doctor can ask her Gen App builder to provide information. The tool can also let doctors know which clinical trials a patient is suitable for, Anantraman added.
anantraman The Mayo Clinic said it plans to test various use cases for the Gen App Builder in the coming months. We start with a use case that assists clinicians with simple administrative tasks that lead to burnout. For example, this tool helps create clinical documentation and collect patient billing information for submission to payers.
In addition to looking at administrative use cases, the Mayo Clinic will look at whether the service can also serve clinical use cases, but Anantraman said it would be “very cautious.” pointed out that it should be done. Although rare, generative AI services like ChatGPT may provide inaccurate or misleading information. This is why healthcare systems are reluctant to embark on clinical use until they know their AI models are ready.
“Before we can even talk about that, we need to develop the appropriate metrics to ensure that accuracy and adequacy are measured above all else,” he explained.
This partnership is part of a decade-long collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Google Cloud. announced While Google Cloud will work closely with healthcare systems to hear feedback from clinicians testing the Gen App Builder, Mayo Clinic isn’t the only provider that can use the tool. This tool can also be adopted by other medical systems. A Google Cloud spokesperson said it is being sold on a SaaS model.
Google Cloud’s creation of this medical data retrieval service and its introduction into the Mayo Clinic comes as competition from Microsoft and other big tech companies intensifies to attract healthcare system customers seeking cutting-edge AI solutions. is the correspondence. Only time will tell if this tool provides enough time savings to justify adoption.
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