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According to Statista, in 2021, artificial intelligence in the healthcare market was worth around 11 billion dollars worldwide.
Natural language text was the second most common type of data on which healthcare organizations applied AI models during 2021.
According to Statista, The global healthcare AI market was forecast to be worth nearly $188 billion by 2030.
Pennsylvania State University and Jacaranda Health, a non-profit organization focused on improving maternal and newborn health outcomes in Africa, have developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) that they seek to use as a tool to improve care for pregnant women. and their babies.
The team’s tool, TRIage for Mothers using AI (TRIM-AI), uses natural language processing, a type of AI that enables machines to understand text and spoken words, to analyze text messages and flag those whose language is identified as indicative of a potential hazard.
According to the University of Pennsylvania statement, flagged messages are given a weighted risk score and presented to a small team of help desk agents who assess the emergency levels of cases and decide which cases should be responded to directly and which cases need immediate medical intervention.
Compared to Jacaranda Health’s first AI model, TRIM-AI is approximately 17% more accurate in predicting high-risk medical conditions from text messages sent by pregnant women and new mothers, reducing the workload of help desk agents by about 12%, according to the statement.
What is Jacaranda Health’s first Artificial Intelligence model?
Jacaranda Health developed the two-way text message-based system through which TRIM-AI is deployed. Their system, called PROMPTS, is a free platform for pregnant women and new mothers that allows them to get answers and critical information about pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care.
PROMPTS has more than 350,000 active users in Kenya and receives 1.1 million messages per month, making it extremely difficult for agents to accurately identify and triage the most urgent cases. TRIM-AI, implemented by Jacaranda Health in June 2022, automates much of this triage by translating messages that are often sent in a mix of English and Swahili, as well as decoding abbreviations, symbols, and other shorthand.
According to reports from Jacaranda Health, mothers who send flagged messages receive a call from a help desk agent within an hour and are referred to a call center where 85% of mothers in identified cases go to the hospital. .
Uses of Artificial Intelligence in medicine
According to information from IBM, Artificial intelligence in medicine is the use of machine learning models to search for medical data and discover insights that help improve health outcomes and patient experiences.
Thanks to recent advances in computer science and informatics, artificial intelligence is quickly becoming an integral part of modern healthcare. AI algorithms and other AI-powered applications are used to assist medical professionals in clinical settings and in ongoing research.
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