RE: CDC’s10 Feb 2023 10:25
welloilbeefooked
Here is another potential saving the NHS could make in using Bleepa / carelocker along with AI technology such as Qure.aI.
if we take breast screening across the entire UK as an example.
"Breast screening is a 2-stage process. Women attending have mammography (breast x-rays) and for the majority (96 out of every 100 screened), no abnormalities are found by the professionals who interpret the images."
Gov statistics 2018
The other 4 out of every 100 women screened are invited for further investigation at an assessment clinic. Of the 4 women attending assessment clinic just under half will have needle biopsies to confirm whether or not they have cancer. We now detect virtually all cancers (97.8%) at this stage without women having to undergo a surgical biopsy under general anaesthetic.
So out of every 100 women going through what is a laborious and time consuming breast screening appointment , 4 women will be flagged up as "of concern".
Using Qure.AI technology for example, each of these 100 women's images could have been sent anywhere in the world, processed by AI ( rather from each one needing to be (visually checked by a doctor) and then those of concern would be referred directly to a specialist ( may not be in same hospital, country, in theory) for further investigation....
The savings , and re purposing of the doctors time would be used for treating those that are confirmed as needing treatment unwell, rather than confirming that most patients do not need treatment.
These are the types of pilots being introduced today, and imo it will be a revolution in medical care, i can imagine India and many other country's will have the equivalent of call centres, with AI technology, handling images form all around the world, and with the option of specialists present if needed . This will take time, but i think its going to happen fast as soon as the AI, the security, the communication solutions are in place and trusted.
A trained front line nurse could arrange for a scan, she could send the images to AI, and only refer to a doctor / fracture clinic if say, a fracture is in fact confirmed.
The good news for those invested here IMO is that it seems like BLEEPA can handle the images safely, securely within a patients personal medical file that audits every decision made and being introduced to hospitals , and piloted along with AI .
Toms quote ( or something close ) from recent presentation and Q&A was " Bleepa is the front door, and it will work with any Ai behind it, not just Qure.ai.