From using a Google-backed generative artificial intelligence application to find patient information quicker to creating a AI-based tool that can predict a patient's risk of dying, here is how eight hospitals and health systems are using the technology to improve patient care, clinical workflows and operational efficiency:
- New Orleans-based Ochsner Health is installing Aidoc's clinical artificial intelligence platform. Ochsner will use the AI algorithms to identify acute abnormalities in patient scans.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using artificial intelligence algorithms to help treat patients with kidney stones. The new AI-based system tests a kidney stone after it passes through a patient's body to discover what chemicals make up the stone.
- New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System scans patient records with AI to identify patients at risk for malnutrition.
- New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has an algorithm that looks through brain scans to find patients who may be good candidates for blood clot removal.
- New York City-based NYU Langone Health has a care planning tool that predicts patients' risk of dying within the next two months, prompting physicians to discuss end-of-life planning.
- Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare created an artificial intelligence-based algorithm that can predict the upcoming week's work schedule for its nurse navigators who are in charge of facilitating the process of cancer care for patients.
- Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has created a generative AI-based internal chatbot using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service. The bot will help streamline administrative work for its staff. Some of the tasks the bot will take on will include "how-to" documents, in which staff can ask the bot questions on how to access reference materials and documents.
- Clinicians at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine used an artificial intelligence-powered tool to achieve a 13 percent increase in the detection and removal of colorectal polyps.
- Vish Anantraman, MD, chief technology officer at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, is using Google Cloud's generative artificial intelligence application to help find patient information quicker.