As European doctors retire, could AI help to solve a health workforce shortage?

Experts say AI is not there to replace health workers but rather could help to automate some of the more administrative tasks that fall on them.

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00:12 We do know we have a huge health workforce crisis and shortage in terms of when one looks at the demographic trends

00:20 and looks at the numbers of health workers that are going to be available in the coming years.

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00:35 The key question that we need to ask ourselves is really around how the limited number of doctors, nurses,

00:43 community health workers that we do have are spending their time, right?

00:48 And what can we do to increase the amount of time that they have available to interact with the patients,

00:57 to provide that in-depth, compassionate care that patients deserve?

01:02 Now these new large language models which allow us to talk to machines in a very natural way.

01:07 We had hospitals that went paperless, so we digitized.

01:11 But can we go from paperless to keyboardless?

01:13 Can we eliminate the keyboard as a form factor so we talk to machines?

01:17 And I think the technology is there.

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01:29 We're going to see an explosion of new tools, new platforms, new solutions coming out every day.

01:37 The question is which one of these tools claims to provide health care, health advice,

01:44 help to support clinicians or providers in their delivery of care?

01:50 And it's where the risk and the closeness to patients require regulatory oversight

01:59 that we need to be carefully paying attention to those technologies to ensure that they are safe,

02:05 they are confidential, they are dealing with patient privacy, and that they're not putting people at risk.

02:12 at risk.

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