Anna Escale, doctor and member of the Digital Health Group of the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (Camfic).
day iArtificial intelligence is increasingly present in the health sector, but it is less prominent in primary care consultations. Doctor and member of the Digital Health Group of the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (Camfic), Anna Escaleasks that primary care be involved in research on artificial intelligence and “Administration’s commitment and dedication To gradually incorporate these tools into primary care consultations”.
Escale, who works in primary care at a center at the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) in Central Catalonia, explains the need to Primary care exists in studies that validate devices of artificial intelligence. ,It is essential that you have our criteria, The involvement of primary care in algorithm development is essential from the outset to help them become truly useful tools in clinical practice”, he details.
With regard to health professionals, he assured in an interview medical writing what “we have to be involved from the first moment To be able to validate the tools and we can benefit from them”.
Is Artificial Intelligence implemented in the questions?
Artificial intelligence is already being implemented in first-level care counseling, however. Still “Very Early”, However, Eskell stated that “We cannot turn our backs on the implementation of new technologies in our consultation because, among other things, they will allow us to move towards a more personalized and personalized medicine”.
,Using predictive models can help us differentiate screeningAlso look at reinforcement measures in clinical adherence, and where they are in fact already quite developed and can help us as a diagnostic aid tool for consultation, that is through images such as X-rays, dermatological images or electrocardiograms. is in analysis. , adds the doctor. Escale emphasizes that new technologies “They should help us perform tasks that don’t really require a physical exam and, therefore, They can help us free up the bureaucracy of caregiving“All this should be allowed by health professionals.”have more time to do other tasks That only we can do ‘in vivo'”.
This advance should guarantee “greater effectiveness and efficiency”. A member of Kampfic’s Digital Health Group argues that if artificial intelligence “helps us professionals diagnose faster and with greater diagnostic accuracy, it can result in patient time, speed, effectiveness and efficiency savings.” has an effect”.
“We are a specialty that covers everything, but at the same time we are professionals who know the patient’s environment, their background, and their community and family context; it considers a global vision that is essential That’s when we have to take health decisions,” he alleged.
Do doctors have enough AI training?
Although there are more and more partnerships and projects that combine primary care and artificial intelligence in Catalonia, such as the Salute/IA Project and the TIC Salute Social Foundation, Camfic is requested that the pace of administration’s commitment to install these equipments keep pace with the advancement of new technologies. in that sense, “It is important that family therapists be trained in artificial intelligence Because we have to work with it. More training is needed in this area,” admits Eskell.
The doctor remarks that artificial intelligence is a new field in the field of health and that “Build a multidisciplinary team comprising healthcare professionals and engineering technicians”, In this way, health workers will be able to be involved in the development of technology to make it more effective and efficient and thus the result will take into account the reality of day-to-day care and focus on the practice.
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