Introducing AskBob
Ping An announced that Ping An Smart Healthcare (PASH) has introduced AskBob, an AI-based medical decision support tool, to Singapore through collaborations with SingHealth and the National University Health System (NUHS).
Can technologies help clinicians make better informed decisions? Ping An's AskBob is an AI-based medical decision support tool.
Dr. Xie Guotong, Chief #Healthcare Scientist at Ping An presented at a workshop at the NUS-NUHS-MIT Healthcare AI Datathon 2019 in Singapore today. pic.twitter.com/mFvMpabA3h— Ping An Group (@pingan_group) July 18, 2019
AskBob, developed by Ping An, provides critical and up-to-date medical information to clinicians when dealing with patients at the point of care and for medical research and self-learning such as case discussions.
At the point of care scenario, AskBob provides precise diagnosis and treatment recommendations for more than 1,500 diseases. Unlike other clinical decision support systems (CDSS), AskBob is a “knowledge + data” two-wheeled drive intelligent CDSS based on millions of anonymous patient medical records, clinical guidelines and a core medical knowledge graph covering tens of millions of medical data. The treatment recommendations AskBob provides are authoritative, personalized and patient-centric.
For medical research and self-learning, AskBob makes use of Ping An’s leading medical knowledge graph and advanced natural language processing technologies (NLP) to perform more user-friendly, intuitive and precise online searches and literature analyses. AskBob can provide up-to-date literature analysis summaries and predict scientific research trends. It can also track the scholar team network in a certain research field to connect researchers around the world.
The collaboration with SingHealth, one of Singapore’s largest public healthcare groups, started in April 2019. It aims to provide doctors with personalized treatment recommendations for type 2 diabetes patients at the point of care. Diabetes is a serious health issue in Singapore, with one in nine Singapore residents aged 18 to 69 having diabetes. AskBob’s recommendations can potentially help achieve better diabetes control and health outcomes, including reducing diabetic complications such as stroke and kidney failure.
