The China's first AI pediatrician officially “on duty”.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 14 (Reporter Gu Tiancheng, Xia Ke) On February 13, in the National Center for Children's Health, China, Beijing Children's Hospital Consultation Center, an expert AI pediatrician formally “on duty”, with 13 pediatric experts to complete a difficult cases of multidisciplinary consultation. The reporter learned from Beijing Children's Hospital that this is the first AI pediatrician in the country, which is expected to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and rare diseases, and bring new changes to pediatric medical services.
An 8-year-old boy is the object of this consultation, he continued three weeks of twitching, two weeks ago found the skull base mass, the cause of the complexity of the disease, and bounced around a lot of hospitals, but the diagnosis and treatment results are not the same. In this consultation, the AI pediatrician and 13 well-known experts from different departments, such as otolaryngology head and neck surgery and surgical oncology, gave highly compatible recommendations.
“The AI pediatrician, one of the series of products of the Great Model of Artificial Intelligence for Children's Health being developed by Beijing Children's Hospital, integrates the clinical experience of more than 300 renowned pediatric specialists at Beijing Children's Hospital and decades of high-quality medical record data from the specialists.” Ni Xin, director of the National Center for Children's Health, China and president of Beijing Children's Hospital, said.
February 13, Beijing Children's Hospital Consultation Center “AI pediatrician + multidisciplinary experts” dual-medicine parallel difficult cases multidisciplinary consultation site, the doctor is using the expert AI pediatrician related functions.
Ni Xin introduced that this expert AI pediatrician can serve as a clinical research assistant to help doctors quickly access the latest scientific research results and authoritative guidelines, and can also assist doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and rare diseases to improve the efficiency of clinical decision-making.
It is reported that this consultation opens a new model of “AI pediatrician + multidisciplinary experts” of dual-medical parallel multidisciplinary consultation. Wang Xiaochuan, founder and CEO of Baichuan Intelligence, the technical cooperation unit of the project, believes that the application of AI pediatricians will greatly promote the popularization and universality of high-quality medical services.
“There is still a shortage of pediatricians in China. In this context, AI empowerment will bring profound changes to safeguard children's health and expand pediatric resources.” Zhang Bo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and honorary director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, said.
“The new era of children's health starts with LLMS!” Ni Xin said that expert, family and community-based AI pediatricians have been “on board” one after another, covering a full range of diversified scenarios such as primary care institutions and family health management, which will promote the balanced layout and high-quality development of medical resources. Through technological empowerment, children in need can enjoy high-quality medical services, safeguarding the healthy growth of 300 million children across the country.