Government planning to introduce ChatGPT-like AI tool to help doctors
The government plans to develop a tool using AI and Machine Learning (ML) that is likely to help doctors across the country create digital prescriptions instead of handwritten ones.
New Delhi: The government is reportedly planning to develop a ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help doctors increase productivity and improve diagnosis accuracy.
Under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), the plan is underway to develop a tool using AI and Machine Learning (ML) that is likely to help doctors across the country create digital prescriptions instead of the handwritten and stored in digital records, according to a report from News18. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Health Authority (NHA) are working with private stakeholders for a successful launch of the tool.
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship program, aims to support the country’s integrated digital health infrastructure. It aims to bridge the existing gap between the different stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem through digital highways.
Apollo launches AI-powered tool
In February, Apollo Hospitals Group launched the AI-powered Clinical Intelligence Engine (CIE), a clinical decision tool that will help healthcare professionals predict patients’ risk of heart disease and initiate treatment at an early stage. This tool can be used by doctors on the Apollo 24*7 platform. Developed using the latest techniques in AI and ML, this tool promises to improve diagnosis accuracy, doctor productivity and patient satisfaction.
The Clinical Intelligence Engine is able to analyze large amounts of data to help healthcare professionals identify patterns that might otherwise be overlooked. Numerically, the intelligence engine has over 1300 conditions and 800 symptoms in its vocabulary, covering 95 percent of the daily case mix in OPDs. Built by more than 100 engineers, leveraging 40 years of data from Apollo and the collective intelligence of thousands of physicians along with supporting data from peer-reviewed journals, it is one of the largest connected health data lakes in the world, having been tested and validated by quite a few global academic institutions.
How the center plans to introduce an AI tool in healthcare
As part of the plan, the center is likely to use data from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Apollo Hospitals and Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai in the early stages.
“Maybe we will use synthetic data to train the model initially. Later we will also look at the use of data from the AIIMS and the Tata Memorial Hospital. The data from Apollo’s extensive experience can also be used by integrating their tool with the government’s application, as their (Apollo) tool is freely available to healthcare professionals,” a government official said in the report.