Color Health’s copilot app will leverage OpenAI GPT-4o’s reasoning capabilities to improve and accelerate cancer treatment
Cancer treatment is about to get better with GPT-4o’s reasoning capabilities.
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What you need to know
Healthcare is vital. However, the sector faces many challenges, including a lack of resources, a shortage of trained health providers, and more. The increasing number of cancer cases isn’t making the situation any better. The World Health Organization (WHO)predicts over 35 million new cancer cases by 2050.
While elaborate measures are already in place to mitigate an increase in the number of cancer cases, there’s only so much that can be done. Recent developments reveal thatOpenAI and Color Health are partneringto accelerate treatment for cancer patients.
Color Health’s new copilot app will leverageOpenAI’s flagship GPT-4o modelcapabilities “to identify missing diagnostics and create tailored workup plans, enabling healthcare providers to make evidence-based decisions about cancer screening and treatment.”
According to the CEO of Color Health:
“Color’s vision is to make cancer expertise accessible at the point and time when it can have the greatest impact on a patient’s healthcare decisions.”
GPT-4o will streamline the cancer treatment process
Missed screenings and delayed cancer treatment have a negative implication on the affected patient’s health. The processes can be time-consuming and complex. Consequently, patients who miss these important steps by just four weeks face a 6–13% higher mortality.
According to Color Health:
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“Screening needs are also often highly individualized. More than a third of Color’s patients, for example, require earlier, different screening approaches based on individual risk factors not addressed by standard guidelines.”
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Color began working closelywith OpenAI in 2023 to improve cancer patient care by interpreting inconsistently formatted patient data, analyzing dense healthcare guidelines, protecting patient data privacy, and more.
To achieve this, Color leveragedOpenAI’s GPT-4and GPT-4o models to handle complex tasks like extracting important data from long PDFs filled with complicated diagrams that outline care paths based on diagnostic workup.GPT-4 Visionwas especially instrumental when it came to interpreting and analyzing the complex diagrams.
Finally, Color Health is leveraging its partnership with OpenAI to accelerate the treatment process of cancer patients by:
Color is rolling out its copilot app in waves, starting with its clinicians.
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