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What in the world? “the base LLM with existing real-world data sets, such as electronic health records and transcribed medical conversations” So it trained on
by Pigalowda 3y ago
What in the world?
“the base LLM with existing real-world data sets, such as electronic health records and transcribed medical conversations”
So it trained on text that a healthcare provider extracted from the HPI/interview, labs/tests, radiology etc?
So it’s just a diagnostic assistant that can chat? Is it going to get conversational info out of non-English speakers and indigents? The urgently ill who are unable to vocalize what they’re feeling? The delirious who have “altered mental status”?
What about the huge amount of geriatrics who have significant cognitive decline and lack the ability and vocabulary to deliver information? And this is going to bother the terminally online - but what about the low SES who speak in virtually indecipherable urban patois?
This piece of shoftware isn’t going to help anyone. It’s going to be for articulate young to middle age educated people who don’t want to talk to a chatbot. And they’ll probably hate using it as they chat with it for filling out visit screening and new patient forms. If it ever deploys.
An “underserved” patient may use it out of desperation to get what they need but I would never in a billion years want this for a patient I gave a shit about.
I guess there’s the crux. They don’t give a shit. Some PE group will get it and you can talk to it before your virtual visit with your human doctor on Zoom. It’ll be like Elysium.
Maybe I’m bitter because I still commute all over town. Maybe that’s what all you software people want, you like WFH so much, let the doctors do WFH too eh? Talk to the chatbot, you guys made it and it’s better than us medical cartel types anyways.