AI Driven Clinical Communication

Healthcare ecosystems connect patients, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders, facilitating the exchange of information through systems like electronic health records (EHRs), radiology reports, and lab results. However, benefitting from these vast amounts of information managed within these ecosystems proves challenging for different participants.

Healthcare professionals often face time constraints when required to get an overview of a patient’s history or to interpret information from clinical documents impeding their ability to quickly make informed decisions. Simultaneously, patients struggle to comprehend medical and clinical information due to varying levels of health literacy, making it difficult for them to fully understand their health status or treatment options. These challenges can result in suboptimal decision-making, misunderstandings, thus leading to an additional burden on the healthcare system.

AID-CC’s solution – a hybrid AI dialogue system for the healthcare sector – sets new standards by combining the strengths of large language models (LLMs) with symbolic reasoning components in dialogue systems. Unlike conventional systems that suffer from hallucinations or biases, our system provides more precision, reliability, and transparency, thus enabling reasoning capabilities for informed decision making. By integrating this innovative service into existing healthcare infrastructures, we enhance access to high-quality and personalized health information for both healthcare professionals and patients. Additionally, the implementation of this solution strengthens the technological sovereignty of existing healthcare ecosystems by seamlessly integrating modern AIpowered systems into their infrastructures. This allows them to maintain full control over patient data and processes without relying on external service providers or platforms.

AID-CC's Primary Project Goals

Development of Technological Solutions for Real-World Healthcare Ecosystems
Development of Technological Solutions for Real-World Healthcare Ecosystems
We will develop a hybrid AI dialogue system that integrates LLMs with symbolic AI reasoning to assist healthcare professionals and patients in retrieving and interpreting information from medical documents.
Improvement of Healthcare Efficiency and Public Health Literacy
Improvement of Healthcare Efficiency and Public Health Literacy
AID-CC focuses on overcoming economic and social challenges by improving efficiency for healthcare professionals and enhancing public health literacy for patients.
Integration into Healthcare Ecosystems
Integration into Healthcare Ecosystems
A key focus of this project is to integrate the dialogue system into existing healthcare ecosystems, ensuring seamless interoperability with both private and public infrastructure, such as ELGA.

Funding

AI Driven Clinical Communication

“AID-CC” is a project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) (AI Ecosystems 2024: AI For Tech & AI For Green, Project No. FO999923574) with a project volume of approximately €1.1 million. It is led by Know Center Research GmbH. Cooperation partners are the Medical University of Graz, FH JOANNEUM, Midlight GmbH, and x-tention Informationstechnologie GmbH.

AI Driven Clinical Communication
AI Driven Clinical Communication
AI Driven Clinical Communication
AI Driven Clinical Communication
AI Driven Clinical Communication