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Those on this list who have been following AI applications in healthcare may be interested to learn that the OpenAI and Anthropic companies are both releasing dedicated health applications of their AI products. Neither are accessible in the UK or the EU at the time of writing, probably because of a lack of compliance with the GDPR laws, but they will be available soon.
There is now a dedicated portal for OpenAI’s healthcare products (https://openai.com/index/openai-for-healthcare/), including ChatGPT Health (https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/) – which you can read about but not yet use in every location.
There is a similar development in Anthropic’s Claude – Claude for Healthcare” (https://claude.com/solutions/healthcare), which aims at providers. It accesses third-party platforms (such as medical databases), and makes use of agent skills which help Claude perform specific tasks (such as sharing medical data and producing medical documents). Anthropic is testing a feature that allows some users to connect their medical information.
According to the OpenAI website, “Health is already one of the most common ways people use ChatGPT, with hundreds of millions of people asking health and wellness questions each week. ChatGPT Health builds on the strong privacy, security, and data controls across ChatGPT with additional, layered protections designed specifically for health— including purpose-built encryption and isolation to keep health conversations protected and compartmentalized. You can securely connect medical records and wellness apps to ground conversations in your own health information, so responses are more relevant and useful to you. Designed in close collaboration with physicians, ChatGPT Health helps people take a more active role in understanding and managing their health and wellness—while supporting, not replacing, care from clinicians.”
Caution is advised at this point!
Chris Zielinski
Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, UK and
President, World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
Blogs; http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com
Publications: http://www.researchgate.net and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/
HIFA profile: Chris Zielinski: As a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, Chris leads the Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) programme, which supports knowledge development and brokers healthcare information exchanges of all kinds. He is President of the World Association of Medical Editors. Chris has held senior positions in publishing and knowledge management with WHO in Brazzaville, Geneva, Cairo and New Delhi, with FAO in Rome, ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna. He served on WHO's Ethical Review Committee, and was an originator of the African Health Observatory. He also spent three years in London as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. Chris has been a director of the UK Copyright Licensing Agency, Educational Recording Agency, and International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors. He has served on the boards of several NGOs and ethics groupings (information and computer ethics and bioethics). chris AT chriszielinski.com. His publications are at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Zielinski and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/ and his blogs are http://ziggytheblue.wordrpress.com and https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ziggytheblue