Healthcare IT Today February 29, 2024
Previous articles in this series have shown how generative AI can be used for administrative and back-office functions in health care. Now we’ll look at how models are trained for these specific purposes.
Training Generative AI Models
Every industry has to develop domain-specific models, and health care has the extra burden of protecting personally identifying data. These requirements raise the question of when the general-purpose solutions offered by major tech companies are appropriate, where health care organizations can get large enough data sets to develop models, and how vanilla LLMs—or foundational LLMS—can be enhanced by narrow data sets from a health care provider.
Harman Dhawan, founder and CEO of Bikham, says that now there are “fairly cheap” LLMs that providers...