Hospice News August 5, 2024
Research by VNS Health has found that generative AI systems can help clinicians better assess and predict patients’ palliative care needs.
The nonprofit recently conducted a case study of three individuals in which staff evaluated methods for using AI to generate a clinical decision support tool. The AI system, an open-source large language model, translated diagnostic and billing codes into a narrative format to identify patients’ needs. VNS Health staff, with lead researcher Rutgers University Assistant Professor Elizabeth Luth, presented their findings at the recent International Nurse Informatics Conference.
”We combined our administrative claims data, our predictive modeling output and basically a template that we could use to prompt AI to pretend as if it was a nurse practitioner and...