OpenAI is growing its presence in healthcare to accelerate cancer patient treatment.
The generative artificial intelligence company partnered with Color Health, a virtual cancer clinic, to copilot a new application with GPT-4o designed to identify missing diagnostics and develop personalized patient workup plans. The tool will help healthcare providers make evidence-based decisions about cancer care.
Color worked with OpenAI to prototype clinical workflows with the ChatGPT interface and generate sample use cases with custom GPT. Color then refined prompts and workflows for the initial copilot version. OpenAI engineers supported the project with expertise on retrieval-augmented generation to increase output quality.
Color integrates patient medical data and clinical knowledge within medical records using OpenAI's APIs. The application extracts, processes and normalizes patient information delivered across multiple formats, including PDFs and clinical notes. It can then answer questions to generate a personalized screening plan and outline needed documentation for diagnostic workups.
Clinicians are able to evaluate all information from the application and make edits where needed. They can add the AI-generated information into the patient's treatment plan once approved..
The University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center partnered with Color to evaluate the application. UCSF will integrate the copilot into workflows for all new cancer cases if everything goes well.
Color is also rolling out the copilot to its clinicians, and found providers using the application can identify four times more missing labs, images or biopsy and pathology. It also took an average of five minutes for clinicians to analyze patient records and find issues with the copilot, whereas it can take days to do the same work without any extra support.
The virtual clinic aims to roll out the copilot to physicians who will oversee its use with 200,000 patients in the second half of the year.
OpenAI also partnered with Apple in early June to integrate ChatGPT into IOS, IPadOS and macOS for broader capabilities, including image and document understanding.