Forbes January 9, 2025
Trenor Williams is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Socially Determined.
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is taking business operations and everyday life by storm, and the healthcare industry isn’t immune. The next few years will likely see significant leaps in applying GenAI to administrative tasks, care delivery and even clinical work.
In one recent example, researchers at the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program at Mass General Brigham using trained large language models (LLMs) found they were extremely adept at identifying social determinants of health (SDOH) in clinician’s notes that otherwise may have gotten lost in the growing volume of health records. SDOH, which covers information such as a patient’s housing status, access to transportation and diet, is important to healthcare...