Why AI’s Biggest Impact In Health Could Be Reducing Doctors’ Paperwork

The excitement about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise medicine and healthcare is palpable. In the UK, for example, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Leader of the Opposition William Hague have demanded a 20-fold increase in AI capacity to power initiatives such as cancer scans. In the European Union, EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi says: “This is the way the whole technology is evolving - it is impossible nowadays not to use AI in the healthcare sector.” In the US, the Food and Drug Administration has in recent months published a series of updates aimed at supporting AI implementations in the healthcare sector with appropriate regulation.

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ReportAId’s tools are aimed at solving that problem. They can interrogate a medical professional’s written report in order to identify recommendations for next steps – and launch automated workflows to take those actions. That might mean automatically booking the patient’s next check-up, say, or beginning the referral process for more significant treatment.ReportAId claims to be able to slash delays in healthcare processes, ensuring patients get treated more quickly; it also promises to save providers money by increasing efficiency – and to boost the revenues of private healthcare providers, who can use its tools to retain their patients and work with larger numbers.

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