The NHS report suggests that the upcoming technological “revolution” in healthcare will increase the time in which doctors can spend with patients.
NHS doctors are overloaded; The problem only deteriorates from the growing and aging population, and not sufficient financing.
The report was conducted by the American academic Eric Topol and calls for a change in NHS staff to use new digital skills. AI and robotics can reduce the burden for healthcare professionals, but only if they are effectively used.
Doctors will not be replaced by robots, but instead they will have their skills “improved” to improve care. It is expected that about 90 percent of all NHS jobs will require digital skills over the next 20 years.
It is expected that the use of virtual assistants, such as offered by Apple, Google and Amazon, will be one of the closest innovations that are ready.
Assistants can help check if the symptoms require urgent care, visit to GP, or whether you should see a doctor at all. This would help prevent the improper use of A&O by people with trivial ailments or booking GP visits for healthy adults with such things as colds.
Virtual assistants can also be used for booking and reminding about meetings. This would help reduce the number unattended that someone might need.
Another concept is the use of a “psychiatric triage bot”, which is involved in conversations, analyzing text and voice in terms of suicide ideas and emotions. This can help reduce ~ 6000 suicides a year.
The main problem preventing download is the possibility of errors that can be fatal in healthcare.
Ai news earlier Reported About the findings of the NHS consultant “Dr. Murphy”, who contacted us after using “GP at his hand” with Babylon Health, a service powered by AI promoted by the Secretary of Health Matt Hancock.
Since then, Dr. Murphy has published many defective experience with the service, but one example “48 -year -old obese smoker 30/day develops (sudden) sudden middle pain in the chest” suggested reservation of the GP visit. Everyone with common sense would urgently say 999.
This example could mean life or death and shows, while such a system can one day provide huge benefits, he must undergo strict tests.
Commenting on the report, Hancock said:
Our health service is on the border of the technological revolution, and our brilliant staff will be at the scene when this happens.
Technology must be there to improve and support clinicians. This can make life easier at work dedicated to NHS staff and free them to use their medical knowledge and do what they do best: care for patients. “
In the report, NHS claimed that using virtual assistants could save 5.7 million hours of family doctor time in England a year.
Further cases of AI use include acceleration of scans interpretation; Improving accuracy while starting the procedures. We created dedicated “Healthcare” AI News category emphasizing amazing progress in this area.
When it comes to robotics, their help in surgery can be extended in addition to use to simple tasks that are important, but time -consuming, such as drug dosing.
Other new technologies, such as VR, are also exciting possibilities. Virtual reality can help reduce pain and treat mental conditions such as post -traumatic stress, anxiety and phobi.
The authors of the report state: “Our review of evidence leads us to suggest that these technologies will not replace healthcare professionals, but will increase them … giving them more time to care for patients.”
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