Ep 183: AI as a clinical assistant, with Rebecca Fechner, Dr Joshua Pate and Dr Mick Thacker
Jun 17, 2024
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Physiotherapist Rebecca Fechner, Dr Joshua Pate, and Prof. Mick Thacker discuss using AI tools like chatbots for brainstorming and problem-solving in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. They explore the benefits of AI in healthcare tasks such as note-taking, cancer detection, and imaging, emphasizing the need for critical thinking and ethical considerations when utilizing AI in clinical settings.
Generative AI tools like chatbots assist in brainstorming and solving clinical problems.
Ethical considerations are crucial when using generative AI tools in clinical contexts.
Deep dives
Generative AI in Healthcare and Education
Generative AI tools like chatbots are being used to assist in healthcare and education by providing brainstorming assistance. These tools help in generating new ideas and solving clinical problems by leveraging vast amounts of general data. Through simulations, researchers have found that using generative AI for co-designed research can yield fast and exciting results, fostering reflection and collaboration among clinicians and researchers.
Practical Applications of AI in Clinical Practice
AI is making its way into clinical practice, with examples such as interactive sessions between patients and AI tools. In pediatric pain treatment, AI is employed to co-generate hypotheses with young patients, empowering them through knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving. By integrating AI as an additional perspective and knowledge base, clinicians can enhance the patient experience, fostering a sense of empowerment and exploring new solutions.
Ethical Considerations and Optimization of AI Tools
Ethical considerations in using AI tools, especially generative AI, play a crucial role in clinical contexts. The training and biases of chatbots need careful scrutiny to ensure ethical usage. To optimize the effectiveness of AI tools, crafting specific and relevant prompts is essential. By incorporating dynamic action verbs and maintaining context, users can enhance the quality of responses and foster critical thinking in AI applications.
There's plenty of work going into how AI can make health care better - including in recording consultation notes, or making early cancer diagnoses, or opening up low cost ways of doing musculoskeletal imaging.
The technology and applications of AI in healthcare changes just about every week. Today, we're exploring generative AI as a help, not a hindrance to musculoskeletal rehabilitation practice.
Physiotherapists Rebecca Fechner (Queensland Paediatric Persistent Pain Service), Dr Josh Pate (University of Technology Sydney) and Professor Mick Thacker (Royal College of Surgeons Ireland) talk about ways to use chatbots and generative AI to generate ideas and solve clinical problems.
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RESOURCES
The Prompt Engineering Guide is a deep dive into how to craft effective prompts for generative AI: https://www.promptingguide.ai/
More on the science of active inference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25563935/
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