Surgeons, company leaders and industry insiders from around the world convened in San Francisco last week for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting. It was a fun and productive time as we talked with top physicians, met with company execs and listened in as presenters discussed the latest developments in orthopedic care. Three key trends emerged during a busy week spent in education sessions, the exhibit hall and networking receptions.
AI on the Horizon
The President’s Symposium drew a standing-room-only crowd on the conference’s second day as attendees packed a session room to learn about generative AI’s potential in healthcare.
Prakash Jayakumar, M.D., Ph.D., introduced the panel discussion by acknowledging that the advent of AI has sparked intense debate and speculation around the hope and the hype behind the breakthrough technology.
“While rapid innovations in AI emerge, so do questions about the biases of information, ensuring data remains protected and the risk versus reward of how we deliver health and healthcare benefit to our patients,” said Dr. Jayakumar, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of Value-based Healthcare and Outcome Measurement at Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin.
Deep learning is driving a lot of the advancement in AI and allows platforms to learn complex associations between two outcomes without assumption, according to panelist Justin Krogue, M.D., Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Clinical Scientist in Health AI at Google.
He said that providing deep learning AI platforms with pelvic x-rays of hip fractures and non-hip fractures would allow the technology to match the performance of an expert in identifying hip fractures. “This would allow for diagnosis and triage,” Dr. Krogue said. “But you could also use AI to automate tasks and predict outcomes in ways that humans can’t currently do.”
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