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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