Google’s Med-PaLM 2 AI conversation system is being tested at the Mayo Clinic and other institutions. It was introduced at Google I/O and is based on the PaLM 2 large language model (LLM). Med-PaLM-2 has been educated on medical licensure tests and expert demonstrations, offering experience in answering health-related questions and completing labor-intensive activities such as document summarization and research data organization. Positive characteristics of the technology include alignment with medical consensus, reasoning capacity, and producing preferable replies above physician-generated solutions. However, it exhibits accuracy issues similar to previous Chat AI models. Microsoft is collaborating with healthcare software business Epic to build medical AI chat technology based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google is developing AI for ultrasound diagnostics and cancer therapy while maintaining patient anonymity. Both firms guarantee that patient information will be kept private. Google feels that the improved model might be extremely valuable in places where doctors are scarce. Google, on the other hand, concedes that the technology is still in its early stages and believes that it can extend the areas where AI might be useful in healthcare.
