How artificial intelligence improves health care
Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic in recent years as it expands into more areas and is used in new ways. AI continues to improve health care, giving providers more accurate information to inform decisions on patient health and growing training opportunities.
Artificial Intelligence in patient care
Artificial intelligence allows health care providers to give you the best care possible. AI is used for personalized medicine, which lets doctors use systems to determine the best treatments, medications or therapies for each patient. The systems allow for input of your specific symptoms to determine which treatments are best and what the best dosage of medication would be. AI can keep physicians up-to-date on the newest treatment options and the current clinical trials.
AI can perform diagnostic image analysis on radiology images and spot disease. Systems analyze health care outcomes based on treatments and patient demographics. This leads to more informed decisions as providers choose a treatment option. A common usage is analysis to determine how genes impact therapies. It can spot a gene that you have that may affect treatment and provide other options.
You don’t need to be concerned about the growing use of artificial intelligence in health care. AI data gives providers a way to make more personalized decisions on therapy options. Not only can it provide treatment options, it can predict what the outcome will be based on your symptoms and genes.
Artificial intelligence to train health care providers
The Ohio State University College of Medicine uses artificial intelligence to train providers to take your medical history. A virtual patient app is downloaded onto their iPads to allow trainees to practice asking the questions necessary to take your medical history. The app provides feedback on how well they did. It also recaps the questions asked, notes important questions that should’ve been asked and compares the results with an expert’s questions of the same patient.
The virtual patient app also has a setting for limited English proficiency. To learn how to effectively communicate with patients who don’t speak English as their first language, the app gives an analysis of the trainee’s encounter and tells them if their questions were too complicated. The analysis includes options like making questions simpler, or using an interpreter or family member.
Artificial intelligence gives health care providers a way to customize treatments to benefit patients and a chance for future providers to improve their ability to communicate with patients.
Doug Danforth is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Ohio State College of Medicine.
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