I'm imagining a patient using this service on one side and a provider using a chatbot on the other end. Telemedicine risks becoming a conversation between AIs over a meat conduit.
Don't forget pre-visit. Doctor visits go much better if the patient advocate (this thing) has questions in hand. The patient can spend hours talking to the tool and get a summary so they are better prepped for the 5-minute doctor conversation. A tool that summarizes observed symptoms for the doctor might be an idea.
As a patient myself with a complex case and living in Boston where we have amazing doctors and care, doctors are good with getting a shorthand note they can scan prior to appointment about updates, etc reverent to the appointment that day. My experience is that AI models even with expert curations cannot currently do well by itself and would waste a doctor’s time and could be misleading too. As such as noted by the parent comment, that note would need to be summary sheet that AI touches would have to list facts and context with patient review that it accurately would represents what the patient would say in their own words.
Pro tip: check out the NoHarm benchmark and tracking to see how the current models are generally trending on the medical frontier. Make sure to select Clinical not General:
https://www.arise-ai.org/mast
And if you look at some the data carefully as one of the models highlights on their blog, there’s concerning behavior for Fable on this front:
https://www.amboss.com/us/newsroom/noharm
Yes, actually that was our first experiment! We stripped it for this launch so we could more intelligently handle the cost and latency.
Every time I talk to a doctor they suggest we should do this. Honestly there's often enough time in the waiting room even if the patient doesn't do it at home lmao. Then just show the doctor a few bullets with quotes.
I'm imagining a patient using this service on one side and a provider using a chatbot on the other end. Telemedicine risks becoming a conversation between AIs over a meat conduit.
I’m sure doctors will love this. “My AI bot thinks I…”
>> balance between live help vs after-visit
Don't forget pre-visit. Doctor visits go much better if the patient advocate (this thing) has questions in hand. The patient can spend hours talking to the tool and get a summary so they are better prepped for the 5-minute doctor conversation. A tool that summarizes observed symptoms for the doctor might be an idea.
As a patient myself with a complex case and living in Boston where we have amazing doctors and care, doctors are good with getting a shorthand note they can scan prior to appointment about updates, etc reverent to the appointment that day. My experience is that AI models even with expert curations cannot currently do well by itself and would waste a doctor’s time and could be misleading too. As such as noted by the parent comment, that note would need to be summary sheet that AI touches would have to list facts and context with patient review that it accurately would represents what the patient would say in their own words.
Pro tip: check out the NoHarm benchmark and tracking to see how the current models are generally trending on the medical frontier. Make sure to select Clinical not General: https://www.arise-ai.org/mast
And if you look at some the data carefully as one of the models highlights on their blog, there’s concerning behavior for Fable on this front: https://www.amboss.com/us/newsroom/noharm
Yes, actually that was our first experiment! We stripped it for this launch so we could more intelligently handle the cost and latency.
Every time I talk to a doctor they suggest we should do this. Honestly there's often enough time in the waiting room even if the patient doesn't do it at home lmao. Then just show the doctor a few bullets with quotes.
Thoughts?