Health Imaging October 13, 2023
As the potential applications of large language model (LLM) AI in healthcare expand, researchers are trying to understand how well these systems protect patient privacy.
Research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has explored the viability of LLMs to extract valuable information from radiology reports while maintaining stringent patient privacy standards. The study was conducted using a local LLM model that is not public and not connected to the internet, and the results show in the right context, they can perform a diagnostic analysis while respecting anonymity. The results are published in Radiology. [1]
Despite a stream of research on the use of LLMs in healthcare, due to HIPAA rules and privacy concerns, the models have not been widely...