⚕️AI-Driven Risk Stratification Tools

Good Morning! Apple’s much anticipated vision pro headset, promising to herald us into a new era of spacial computing, opens for preorders today.

Tech enthusiasts believe the technology would have far reaching consequences in the world of health as well.

Is Metaverse the next frontier in healthcare? What impact will spatial computing have in HealthTech? These are among the few questions we are taking a deep dive in today.

Here’s what else we’re covering in our newsletter:

• Google’s AI Outpacing Physicians in Empathy and Accuracy

• AI-Driven Risk Stratification Tools

• 20% Healthcare CEOs Expect GenAI to Replace Workforce in 2024

ANALYSIS
Google’s Conversational Diagnostic AI Outpacing Human Physicians

What’s happening: Google researchers say they've developed AI that is more accurate and empathetic than real-life physicians.

The researchers created an experimental large language model, AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), built on actual EHR data and medical appointment transcriptions, to conduct medical interviews

The results are out: Twenty people participated in online text-based medical consultations and weren't told whether they were communicating with AI or real-life clinicians. 

• The bot outperformed the human physicians in 24 of 26 conversational measures, including showing empathy, being polite, and putting patients at ease. 

• AI also matched or surpassed the primary care physicians in all six diagnostic categories.

While the large language model is in no way better than their human counterparts when taking medical history, this tool shows that AI has significant potential to transform the collection of clinical histories and diagnostic conversations in healthcare.

TOP STORY
AI-Driven Risk Stratification Tools

• PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) survey indicates a 7.0 percent year-on-year medical cost trend in 2024 for both Individual and Group markets. This trend is higher than the projected medical cost trends in 2022 and 2023, which were 5.5 percent and 6.0 percent, respectively.

• National health expenditures are projected to grow 5.4 percent, on average, over the course of 2022–31 and to account for roughly 20 percent of the economy by the end of that period.

Patient risk stratification tools can help to curb rising expenses and improve patient outcomes. Risk stratification identifies high-risk patients and addresses their needs early on, it also prevents the onset of serious diseases. 

AI-driven patient risk stratification tools can speed up the process of detecting high, medium, and low-risk patients.

This article takes a deep dive into how inclusion of AI in risk stratification tools is changing care delivery.

• Machine learning for CKD management

• ML-based risk stratification for in-hospital mortality

• Risk stratification tool for CHD

Read more here.

DEEP DIVE
What Is Metaverse in Healthcare?

The metaverse, a fusion of today's online world projected in 3D, extends into the physical realm, offering immersive experiences beyond the constraints of the present.

Divided into seven layers, including Experience, Discovery, and Spatial Computing, the metaverse presents a versatile space where individuals can work, connect, learn, shop, play, and create.

Metaverse Applications In Healthcare

• Mental health

• Surgical Operations

• Medical Training

• Fitness and wellbeing

Take a deep dive into what is metaverse and what are its potential applications in healthcare here.

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What else is making news

• Nearly 1 in 5 healthcare CEOs expect that generative artificial intelligence will replace at least 5% of their workforce in 2024. However broader hiring trends could offset the AI-related reductions. Nearly half of healthcare CEOs say they expect to increase their headcounts by 5% or more in the next 12 months.

• Epic has made an AI-powered system that automates clinical documentation during patient and physician encounters widely available in collaboration with Nuance and Microsost. The system, Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot, was embedded into Epic with the aim of fast-tracking the development of conversational, ambient and generative AI solutions for EHR users.

• CareView Communications, a health IT company, is partnering with an unnamed Montana-based health system to expand its Pacific Northwest presence. It will install and provide 12 mobile cameras to the health system to improve patient safety, enhance care quality and provide real-time monitoring to address virtual nursing and virtual sitting use case requirements.