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Dr. GPT will see you now --

GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and
Epic

Generative AI promises to streamline health care, but critics say not
so fast.

Benj Edwards - Apr 18, 2023 8:14 pm UTC

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On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are
bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in
drafting message responses from health care workers to patients and
for use in analyzing medical records while looking for trends.

Epic Systems is one of America's largest health care software
companies. Its electronic health records (EHR) software (such as
MyChart) is reportedly used in over 29 percent of acute hospitals in
the United States, and over 305 million patients have an electronic
record in Epic worldwide. Tangentially, Epic's history of using
predictive algorithms in health care has attracted some criticism in
the past.

 

Further Reading

OpenAI's GPT-4 exhibits "human-level performance" on professional
benchmarks

In Monday's announcement, Microsoft mentions two specific ways Epic
will use its Azure OpenAI Service, which provides API access to
OpenAI's large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and GPT-4. In
layperson's terms, it means that companies can hire Microsoft to
provide generative AI services for them using Microsoft's Azure cloud
platform.

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The first use of GPT-4 comes in the form of allowing doctors and
health care workers to automatically draft message responses to
patients. The press release quotes Chero Goswami, chief information
officer at UW Health in Wisconsin, as saying, "Integrating generative
AI into some of our daily workflows will increase productivity for
many of our providers, allowing them to focus on the clinical duties
that truly require their attention."

The second use will bring natural language queries and "data
analysis" to SlicerDicer, which is Epic's data-exploration tool that
allows searches across large numbers of patients to identify trends
that could be useful for making new discoveries or for financial
reasons. According to Microsoft, that will help "clinical leaders
explore data in a conversational and intuitive way." Imagine talking
to a chatbot similar to ChatGPT and asking it questions about trends
in patient medical records, and you might get the picture.

GPT-4 is a large language model (LLM) created by OpenAI that has been
trained on millions of books, documents, and websites. It can perform
compositional and translation tasks in text, and its release, along
with ChatGPT, has inspired a rush to integrate LLMs into every type
of business, whether appropriate or not.

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Benj Edwards Benj Edwards is an AI and Machine Learning Reporter for
Ars Technica. For over 16 years, he has written about technology and
tech history for sites such as The Atlantic, Fast Company, PCMag,
PCWorld, Macworld, How-To Geek, and Wired. In 2005, he created
Vintage Computing and Gaming. He also hosted The Culture of Tech
podcast and contributes to Retronauts. Mastodon:
benjedwards@mastodon.social Twitter @benjedwards
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