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I've posted this story before, but AI has diagnosed a problem patient in our clinic, (and now has diagnosed a second problem patient). Basically no one could f
by hospitalJail 3y ago
I've posted this story before, but AI has diagnosed a problem patient in our clinic, (and now has diagnosed a second problem patient).
Basically no one could figure out what was wrong with the patient despite 2 years of seeing GP + Specialist + strong drugs. In about 5 minutes GPT3 gave my wife 10 possible diagnosis, she looked up the ones she wasnt familiar with, found one she thought matched, and later did the confirmation test: Yes, he had it. No more medicine needed...(Surgery was needed).
The insane part to me was that I later changed the prompt to say: This is the most likely diagnosis, and it got it correct.
The update on this story, we had another patient with the same issue come in, wife knew the symptoms at this point and knocked out another diagnosis.
The GP should be diagnosis this, my wife is in a specialty that doesnt deal with this. This means multiple physicians are missing this relatively common diagnosis. I hope that medical software takes note pages and places possible diagnosis at the top of the page automatically. Given how many of my tech friends are resistant to AI, I imagine healthcare field is way worse.
- pilotneko 3y agoI assume you and your wife are not in the US. Stateside, you would need a Business Associate Agreement to send protected health information to a third party.
- tylerrobinson 3y agoNot always. It is not necessary to have a BAA to look up diagnosis information using patient data, so long as the data used maintains the patient’s anonymity. For example, a doctor googling your symptoms doesn’t require a BAA with google.
- cma 3y agoGoogle's black box ad optimization stuff probably links you with the doctor via your searches for them and then links the doctor's searches about your conditions to you based on your own related searches, or do they have safeguards for this?
- pilotneko 3y agoIf you properly deidentify the patient information, then yes, you are not sending PHI to Google. Proper deidentification is tricky though: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-topics/de-identification/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...
- ourmandave 3y agoIf GPT3 was trained on WebMD, 9 out of the 10 would have been a cancer diag.