AI and health part one: DrGPT will see you now
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence is already making its mark in health care—but new, bigger, models promise to improve how patients access services, help doctors spot diseases faster and transform how medical research is done. In the first of two episodes on the potential of AI in health care, we ask: how will patients benefit from the technology behind ChatGPT?
Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor. Contributors: Natasha Loder, The Economist's health editor; Gerald Lip of NHS Grampian; Peter Kecskemethy of Kheiron Medical; Pranav Rajpurkar of Harvard Medical School; Hugh Harvey of Hardian Health.
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| 1:11.6 | and then they make a decision on that and they disagree with a third human reader. |
| 1:15.6 | Gerald Lipp is a radiologist in charge of screening for breast cancer in the northeast of Scotland. |
| 1:21.6 | Gerald and his team recently wanted to find out how an artificial intelligence tool could help their service. |
| 1:29.0 | We had 10,000 women go through the system and where two humans said there was nothing seen on |
| 1:35.2 | the mammograms, this is when the AI kicked in. And the AI would give us a reading and said, |
| 1:41.6 | there's something on this mammogram and they'll have a circle on the mammogram |
| 1:45.1 | and say, would you like to look at this area a bit more closely? |
| 1:51.5 | One of the very first few patients we did, there was a lady named Barbara. And Barbara was |
| 1:56.6 | the lady who was reaching her 70s. So this would have been her last time coming to the screening |
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