Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan Ep 44: Dr. Atul Butte on Healthcare AI Opportunities and Challenges
17 snips
May 7, 2024 Dr. Atul Butte, a professor at UCSF and Chief Data Scientist of the UC Health System, discusses healthcare AI opportunities, challenges, hype, and more. Topics include AI adoption timeline, converting skeptical doctors, commercialization in AI, regulating consumer-facing AI apps, coolest AI demos, and what company Dr. Butte would want to run.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Doctors Crave Ambient Listening AI
- Doctors enthusiastically want ambient listening AI that transcribes and generates clinical notes in real time.
- Every doctor who sees this demo wants to adopt the technology immediately.
Medical-Specific LLM Training Looms
- Large language models soon will be explicitly trained on large sets of medical notes from multiple centers.
- This specialization will rapidly improve their medical accuracy and usefulness.
Early De-identification Enables AI Research
- UCSF and a few other medical schools de-identified 140 million clinical notes for AI research since 2016.
- Early preparation with in-house tools avoids exposing protected data to external companies.