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AI & Healthcare: The Landscape In 5 Years
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AI & Healthcare: The Landscape In 5 Years

Physician Associates and Nurse Practitioners are the ones on the chopping block...

The next 5 years are going to be incredible. Still, it’s important to stay grounded and not feed into the hype.

Chances are good that you’ve heard people question whether or not ChatGPT will replace doctors. The easy answer here is — no.

But other models from Google can and will.

In this episode, Justin discusses:

  • The shortage of Health Care Providers in the United States

  • Health Care Provider dependency on the medical version of Wikipedia — Up to Date

  • Google’s AI models: MedPaLM2, MedLM, and AMIE

  • The use of of AI as a collaborator

  • The most likely jobs within healthcare to be impacted negatively in the next 5 years

  • How patients will interact with AI models, leading to better healthcare outcomes

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Episode Timeline

0:00 Intro

1:14 The Topics Discussed Today

4:15 Use This Episode Timeline to Scan Ahead to What Applies to You

4:42 The Shortage of Doctors In the US

8:22 The Purpose of Physician Associates and Nurse Practitioners

12:39 The Stresses of Being a Healthcare Provider

14:04 Wikipedia for Doctors

18:17 Brief Intro to LLM's

22:29 Meet the Mind Blowing MedPaLM2

27:46 Meet the New UptoDate — MedLM

30:17 Meet Your New Doctor — AMIE

33:39 The Problem for PA's and NP's

39:47 The Future of Medicine In Your Pocket

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References

Provider Statistics

  • https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-president-sounds-alarm-national-physician-shortage

  • https://www.statista.com/statistics/186269/total-active-physicians-in-the-us/

  • https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291071.htm

  • https://www.aanp.org/about/all-about-nps/np-fact-sheet#:~:text=There%20are%20more%20than%20385%2C000,NPs)%20licensed%20in%20the%20U.S.&text=More%20than%2039%2C000%20new%20NPs,academic%20programs%20in%202021%2D2022.

  • https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291229.htm

World Population

  • https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/

Schooling References

  • https://extension.harvard.edu/blog/how-to-become-a-physician-assistant/#:~:text=To%20become%20a%20PA%2C%20you,for%20two%20to%20three%20years.

  • https://uthscsa.edu/medicine/education/ume/outreach/become-doctor

  • https://www.usmle.org/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_assistant

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner

  • https://www.aanp.org/news-feed/explore-the-variety-of-career-paths-for-nurse-practitioners

  • https://www.usmle.org/scores-transcripts/examination-results-and-scoring#:~:text=*%20USMLE%20Step%201%20score%20reporting,of%20a%20three%2Ddigit%20score.

Artificial Intelligence Models

  • https://sites.research.google/med-palm/

  • https://blog.research.google/2024/01/amie-research-ai-system-for-diagnostic_12.html

  • https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/medlm/overview#medlm-versus-palm

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06291-2

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