Technology & AI

Technology has the power to ease the burden of oncology navigation without replacing the human connection at its core. In this article we look at emerging tools that are designed to support navigators, streamline workflows, and give them more time for what matters most.

AI and oncology navigators form a powerful duo, with AI handling routine tasks, data analysis, and risk identification, allowing oncology navigators to focus on providing personalized support, addressing complex needs, and reducing disparities.

Can AI reshape patient navigation? Learn how it’s improving efficiency, tackling disparities, and why human expertise remains essential in delivering equitable cancer care.

Dr. Enrique Velazquez Villarreal, Assistant Professor in Department of Integrative Translational Sciences at City of Hope, discusses how his innovative AI tool, AI-HOPE, is revolutionizing cancer care by combining clinical data, genomics, and social determinants of health to enhance personalized treatments and patient outcomes.

This groundbreaking study reveals how AI-enabled interventions have the potential to revolutionize patient navigation by reducing burnout, increasing capacity, and creating sustainable healthcare solutions tailored to individual patient needs.

A simple explanation of artificial intelligence is the discipline of making machines that can think like humans. It is a “smart” technology that can process large amounts of data, such as numbers, algorithms, and other input, to recognize patterns and use real-time data to make decisions like humans. Unlike humans, it has the capacity to process significant amounts of data, but what it cannot replace currently is the emotional depth, intuition, and unpredictability of human creativity.

Where do we really stand when it comes to artificial intelligence? What is the value? Who is using it? What are the risks and drawbacks? This technology has been discussed as a solution to complicated medical management as long ago as the 1970s, in the early days of developing clinical decision support systems.

Have you ever asked ChatGPT to create a bio on yourself? Was it spot-on? Somewhat accurate? Total fiction? ChatGPT and similar programs, such as Google’s Med-PaLM 2 and Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, are generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs that use large language models to respond to prompts.

Data from electronic health records can successfully be used as infrastructure to mitigate cancer treatment disparities. Here’s how.

Tracking workflow and metrics through the electronic medical record can give your navigation program an edge.