Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Used in Healthcare in Several Ways. Think of Processing Data or Answering Healthcare Questions. In the latter case, patients cannot simply accept everything from an ai bot. Is it then reliable?
Parkinsonfonds Came Out With the First Virtual Parkinson’s expert on Wednesday: Virtual James Parkinson (VJP). The Foundation Wants To Bring Together the Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Parkinson’s Disease in One Place With This Digital Person.
The Ai is Named After and Looks Like James Parkinson, The British Doctor Who First Described Parkinson’s Disease in 1817. The Number of Parkinson’s patients in the Netherlands and around the World Has Been Increasing in recent years. In Addition, The Disease, Increasingly Affecting is Young Adults.
That is also Why the Foundation Wants to Answer People’s Questions as Well as Possible, Says John Meulemans, Who Developed the VJP on Behalf of PR Agency Hibou. “These people need information. Parkinson’s has more than one clinical picture, which makes it diffress to recognize. The main goal of the ai is therefore to provide information to people who need it.”
Accordance to the maker, this ai bot has “an huge amount of knowledge and information”. The VJP Uses Research From Stichting Parkinsonfonds As its Main Source. But a number of other approved sources also provide the virtual expert with information.
Althegh the VJP Uses Controlled Information, The Foundation Emphasizes That the Ai Can Make Mistakes. Meulemans Understands That This Affects Confidence. “It never hurts to take everything with a grain of salt. But in all the tests we’ve done, the information the ai provid was correct,” he says.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Parkinson’s is an incurable disease that takes place in the brain. Cells that more quickly in a Certain Area of the Brain Due to this condition. People with Parkinson’s Therefore Have Difficulty Moving. But Thinking, Swallowing or Sleeping is also More Difficult.
Negative and positive aspects
In The Netherlands, Several Hospitals Apply AI. Think of the Amsterdam UMC, Radboudumc and LUMC. At the Hospital in Leiden, Maaike Harbers Worked on a New Ai Project. Harbers is a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence & Society at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Conducts Research Into Artificial Intelligence with Various Healthcare Institutions.
At the lumc, they looked at an algorithm to predict cardiovascular diseases. Accordance to Harbers, Ethical Dilemmas Arose. “For Example, People Often Do Not Want Certain Information to Be Shared With The Ai For Privacy Reasons,” Says Harbers.
She uses the vjp as an example of another dilemma: a certain relationship that arises between the ai and the patient. This reduces human-to-human contact. “I have noticed that does something to people, even if the ai is only used for support,” Says Harbers. “Several Doctors Are Concerned about this.”
Accordance to Harbers, ai can predict more and more precisely Whether some Has a Chance of Developing Certain Diseases. That is also Possible Earlier in Life. “But do you want to know that as a patient?” She Wonders Aloud. “That could change your life a lot.”
Harbers Believes that the ai world has made big promises that it has not yet fulfilled. But, The Researcher Admits, Doctors Can Provide Better Care in Some Areas If they Receive Support From AI.
Rise of the Ai Mascot
So ai has different sides, and the vjp is not perfect either. For example, hey Cannot Answer Medical Questions. James then refers the person to a doctor. Meulemans Outlines an Example: “You can simply ask what you can and cannot eat if you have parkinson’s, but not what type of medication you should take in which cases.”
Meulemans Predicts That More and More Companies And Organizations Will Move Towards Virtual Assistance. That then Becomes A Kind of Ai Mascot. He Mentions the Town Hall as an Example. “There ‘stands’ a digital person who can help you with your questions about your upcoming wedding or where to go to vote in an election.”
Harbers also sees examples in which ai can be or added value in healthcare. Think, for example, or checking X-rays for abnormalities. Accordance to her, it is important that the ethical aspects are consulted before and duration development, Instead of After the Creation Process. “Otherwise the quality will be lower or there will ultimately be more work than before.”