This solution could revolutionize medical visits. Parrot AI, an intelligent physician assistant, is being developed in Kielce. It is expected to relieve medics from performing the tedious administrative tasks of medical interviewing and completing medical records. Artificial intelligence algorithms will also analyze the doctor's statements and thus identify symptoms and disease entities. The assistant will suggest additional tests, as well as issue referrals and prescriptions.
Kielce: Artificial intelligence will ease doctor's workload
Published June 30, 2023 08:49
fot. Politechnika Świętokrzyska
Excessive bureaucracy and administrative duties steal from doctors the time they should be devoting to patients, according to a report compiled by the Warsaw Medical University. The situation is not improved by successive reforms and system changes. As a result - patients feel uninformed as to their health situation, as well as treatment.
- "Intelligent Physician Assistant" is the answer to the ills of our healthcare system. We set ourselves three main goals: to improve patient service, to reduce the time of a medical visit while improving the standard, to increase the efficiency and quality of contact with the doctor. We wanted the doctor not to waste time on administrative tasks, but to devote it to a conversation with the patient," says Waldemar Cichacz, CEO of Altar.
The intelligent physician assistant will be a specialized speech processing system. It is being developed by Altar, a Kielce-based IT company, in consortium with Kielce University of Technology, as part of the INFOSTRATEG strategic research and development program.
Information from patients already at the registration stage will be collected by voicebots and chatbots, serving up to 20 patients at a time. With their consent, they will also conduct an initial interview, which, in the form of a transcript, will automatically go into the patient's chart.
"The brain" of the system uses artificial intelligence, speech processing mechanisms, machine learning, NLP methods and Big Data analytics. The new transcription methodology takes into account the specifics of the medical interview. The assistant will analyze the doctor's statements, identify symptoms and disease entities to enter them into the documentation and a special knowledge base that will support diagnostic and decision-making processes. Suggestions for prescriptions, tests, referrals will be determined automatically on the basis of medical history, knowledge base and test results, medical history, biometric data from diagnostic/rehabilitation devices.
The first phase of the project will last 9 months. In subsequent phases, it will be subject to several evaluations, conditioning it to move on to the next stages. If all goes as planned, the project will last a maximum of three years, after which it can enter the commercialization phase.
The developers obtained nearly PLN 8 million in funding from the National Research and Development Center for the project.
Elaborated. based on: PŚk
