There is an increasing role for artificial intelligence (AI) and other technological solutions to improve care provision and improve access to patients in poorly served and rural communities, said Coral Omene, MD, PHD, Associate Professor, Rutgers Cancer Institute and Rwjbarnabas Health.
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Is there a role for AI in promotion and contribution to facilitate care against cancer based on value?
I think AI, more and more we see it used in terms of diagnosis for example, and prediction models for example. I think there is a role for AI by doing this, and more and more the data get out. You can see if AI can be used to predict more precisely (progression of the disease) or have predictive measures that we can use to integrate these patients into our care. This can only help value that we carefully give.
How can technology be used to improve cancer delivery, in particular those of distant or united communities?
When we speak, how we make things easier, for example, for patients in rural areas (and) badly served communities, which may not have very easily access to many major cancer centers around them, one of the things is to really take advantage of the idea of telemedicine, for example, and to be able to rationalize a lot of what we do on telemedicine.
Yes, we do it more and more, especially from the pandemic (COVVI-19), but to really use it in a way, for example, in the clinical trial process to be able to obtain clinical trials to patients where they could easily be able to do (therefore, and) able to speak to them (trials) by the remote series. Being able to sign consent by telehealth practically, instead of bringing them for another trip, in terms of transport, to sign consent. Maybe they got home to think about it. (We have to) think about how we can take advantage of some of these avenues that we have used in recent years to better obtain high -tech care for these patients.