U.S. healthcare chain Carbon Health has implemented an AI tool called Carby that leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model to automatically generate medical records from conversations between doctors and patients. The Register reports: If the patient agrees to have the meeting recorded and transcribed, the voice recording is passed to Amazon’s AWS Transcribe Medical cloud service, where the voice is transcribed. The transcript, along with data from the patient’s medical record, including recent test results, is passed to the ML model to create a note summarizing key information collected during the visit. The medical chart example screenshot below shows the type of text that the software nicknamed Carby produces. Includes virtual patient information and vital readings, as well as medical records and diagnostic summaries.
Carbon Health CEO Eren Bali said the software is directly integrated into the company’s electronic health record (EHR) system and utilizes OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-4. Carbon Health said the tool takes him four minutes to outline an examination, compared to 16 minutes for a living doctor working alone.Clinics will therefore be able to see more patients […] Generative AI models are not perfect and often have errors. Therefore, doctors need to validate AI-generated text. Carbon Health claims that 88% of words are accepted without redaction. Carbon Health says the model already supports more than 130 clinics, with more than 600 staff accessing the tool. After testing the tool at a clinic in San Francisco, he reported a 30% increase in the number of patients he could treat.
