From Grauniad of the UK
AI, as applied to medical science, can be a remarkable tool. That's the good news: see the 1st article. More particularly, this applies to the analysis of scans, images, ECGs, etc. The AI agent can spot tiny differences in aspect that a human being cannot see.
There are other things that an AI agent does not do as well, and this can have very dangerous consequences. That's the bad news: see the 2nd article. More specifically, it is clear that the AI agent will have problems transcribing handwritten notes or conversations, and re-formatting them so as to produce a 'clean' document. And yet, AI is already used routinely by doctors and medical consultants in England to write reports, letters and recommendations about patient care: in effect, the AI agent is replacing a (human) personal assistant (PA).
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Doctors have developed a “superhuman” AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds.
The groundbreaking technology has been trained on millions of patients and works by extracting more information from a routine electrocardiogram (ECG) than the human eye can typically see.
The traditional ECG, which records electrical activity in the heart, including the rate and rhythm, has been a vital medical tool in diagnosing heart attacks and abnormal heart rhythms for a century.
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AI technology that listens to and transcribes patients’ consultations with doctors can put them at risk by getting the names of drugs and illnesses wrong, an NHS watchdog has warned.
In one case a woman was left badly shaken when the AI scribe’s summary of her conversation wrongly said she had demyelination – serious nerve damage that can lead to multiple sclerosis.
It was only when the patient, an NHS health professional, queried the AI tool’s record of the result of her MRI scan that the hospital corrected it to what it should have been – “null demyelination”.
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