AI benefits Wisconsin health experts

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MADISON, Wis. — Artificial intelligence is being integrated into healthcare. The goal is to help health experts with patient treatment.

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Dr. Ryan Woods, a radiologist at UW Health, uses AI to help analyze mammograms

Woods said AI is helping them identify thinks that aren’t perceptible to the human eye

UW Health is also using AI to help when it comes to patient note-taking

Dr. James Bigham, a family medicine physician with UW Health, said the technology is called ambient listening. It transcribes the appointment so he can focus on his patient

Dr. Ryan Woods, a radiologist at UW Health, uses AI to help analyze mammograms.

“It flags that area and says, you should look at this a little more closely and scrutinize that and determine whether you think it needs additional imaging or not,” said Woods.

UW Health is participating in the national PRISM Trial. PRISM stands for Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Artificial Intelligence for Screening Mammography.

Woods said about half of the scans he analyzes use this technology.

“AI can help us identify findings that are maybe not even really perceptible to the human eye,” said Woods. “Maybe there’s some textural difference that the AI algorithm has appreciated, that it, you know, determines is at risk for cancer. I may not appreciate it as a human reader.”

AI is also being used to help when it comes to patient note-taking.

Dr. James Bigham is a family medicine physician with UW Health. Bigham said the technology is called ambient listening. It transcribes the appointment so he can focus on his patient.

“I used to spend so much time just typing up a storm during visits, and I felt like that got in the way of patient care,” said Bigham. “I feel like I now come with eye contact because I can stop and look away from the computer and actually engage them in like a more meaningful way and actually have more of what I went to medicine to do,…

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