Naver Corp and Kakao Corp, two of South Korea’s greatest IT firms, have shared modern makes use of of AI in healthcare.
Within the HIMSS24 APAC panel session, “Tech Titans in Well being: Naver and Kakao’s Position in Reworking Healthcare,” Kakao Healthcare CEO Dr Hwang Hee and Dr Dongchul Cha, head of the Medical Innovation Centre at NAVER Healthcare Lab, shared their organisation’s respective contributions in advancing digital well being in South Korea.
Dr Hwang mentioned potential options geared toward medical information optimisation.
“There are such a lot of choices to select from, however from the angle of the expertise, I feel, federated studying is a really promising and optimistic answer to handle [data] hurdles.”
Given the unstructured nature of affected person information, federated studying and coaching AI fashions for producing structured medical information could maintain key, Dr Hwang steered.
“We are able to use typical [natural language processing] NLP mixed with [large language models] LLM for the mannequin coaching set. Kakao Healthcare developed and deployed automapping for standardising code for worldwide [data management] requirements.”
This course of, he continued, may scale back human and financial assets by as much as 70%-80%.
Dr Cha shared an identical course of at Naver Healthcare Lab.
“[Naver] lately launched a symptom checker the place customers can view well being signs and make reservations with the medical doctors. The affected person’s medical historical past can be built-in with the EMR, and each events can save time,” he defined.
“Data shall be mechanically remodeled [into] clinically organized medical doctors’ notes. I, as a health care provider, can transfer on to bodily examination after gaining the notes, lowering my cognitive burden.”
Dr Cha pressured the worth of further doctor and specialist enter in combating potential “AI hallucinations.”
“We recruited a bunch of physicians and specialists to confirm all solutions [on the platform]. There are two advantages to utilizing this strategy: customers get verifiable solutions, and irrelevant AI questions may be changed with worthwhile questions phrased by specialist clinicians.”
Such innovation, Dr Cha mentioned, serves as a “physician good friend” that can at all times be there for the sufferers, all whereas serving to nearly increase medical capacities.