Becker's Healthcare March 15, 2024
Paige Twenter

AI tools might be able to diagnose healthcare-associated infections, but human oversight is vital to ensuring patient safety, according to a study published March 13 in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Artificial intelligence has largely been implemented for behind-the-scenes work in healthcare, but many are probing whether the AI can aid clinicians with diagnoses and treatment plans.

Researchers at Saint Louis University and the University of Louisville (Ky.) School of Medicine analyzed how well two AI-powered tools could identify HAIs. They tested ChatGPT’s HAI Assist and Mixtral 8x7B, an open-source large language model, against six fictional patient scenarios.

Each AI tool received information on a patient’s age, symptoms, date of admission, and dates when central lines...

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