Hong Kong medics move to use AI to treat high risk patients at early stage

By Efe Ozkan

ISTANBUL (AA) - Hong Kong public hospitals aim to incorporate artificial intelligence to identify and treat high-risk patients at an earlier stage, according to local media.

Dr. Cheung Ngai-tseung, Hong Kong Hospital Authority's head of information technology and health informatics, said that they were looking to integrate AI into the clinical management system to tailor individual treatments with automated tools for over 10 million patients.

"So the general capabilities as described are perhaps things like, more use of AI, more use of personalization, more communication techniques, that sort of thing. Plus specific targeted interventions that will be maybe disease-specific or specific workflows that exist in today's hospitals," public broadcaster RTHK quoted the doctor as saying.

Currently, the Hospital Authority does feature an app for access to patient records and information updates, and the integration of AI could be used to remind patients of specific prescriptions and laboratory results in the form of a blue elf on the screen, it added.​​​​​​​