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University Hospital Basel uses LLMs to summarise reports for tumour boards and draft insurance approval letters

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…nd scale efficiently. What results have you seen so far from implementing LLMs? A significant application is preparing multidisciplinary board discussions, such as for oncology or spinal surgery. LLMs can summarize a pile of reports and cross-check them against multiple guid…
…n, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one o…

Company

University Hospital Basel

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…th Large Language Models (LLMs) in our hospital," says Bram Stieltjes, MD, PhD, Head of Research and Analytic Services at the Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel (Universitätsspital Basel). In an interview, we discuss how to integrate LLMs a…

Country

Switzerland

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Description

In an interview, the head of research and analytic services at University Hospital Basel's radiology department describes using LLMs on structured data from the hospital data warehouse to summarise reports and cross-check them against guidelines for multidisciplinary board discussions, such as for oncology or spinal surgery, and to draft insurance approval letters. He says drafting insurance approval letters, which previously took 20 minutes per patient, can now be done in one or two minutes, and discusses on-premises open-source LLM hosting.

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…ng multidisciplinary board discussions, such as for oncology or spinal surgery. LLMs can summarize a pile of reports and cross-check them against multiple guidelines—American, European, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting…
…sion-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one or two minutes with LLM support. What advice would you give hospitals starting to implement LLMs? What challenge…
…ment AI due to strict data protection regulations. How have you addressed this? One approach is using open-source LLMs on-premises, which mitigates security risks but requires substantial hardware investment. Synthetic data generation is another promising solution. It allows us to train…

Industry

Healthcare

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…th Large Language Models (LLMs) in our hospital," says Bram Stieltjes, MD, PhD, Head of Research and Analytic Services at the Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel (Universitätsspital Basel). In an interview, we discuss how to integrate LLMs a…

Problem

Doctors often need to juggle multiple apps and manually copy-paste information between systems, and the interviewee notes doctors spend up to 50% of their time on electronic health records; drafting letters for insurance approvals previously took 20 minutes per patient.

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…igate such a complex digital ecosystem? It’s increasingly becoming a challenge. Doctors often need to juggle multiple apps, manually copy-pasting information between systems. We’ve tried to streamline this by enabling all applications to launch from a si…
…ied digital environment. At the conference “AI in Health” you’ve mentioned that doctors spend up to 50% of their time on electronic health records (EHRs). Is the situation improving or worsening? Without significant changes, it’s onl…
…sion-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one or two minutes with LLM support. What advice would you give hospitals starting to implement LLMs? What challenge…

Solution

Using structured data from the hospital data warehouse, LLMs summarise a pile of reports and cross-check them against multiple guidelines to prepare multidisciplinary board discussions such as oncology or spinal surgery, and draft letters for insurance approvals.

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…or clinical letters, but results were limited. The advent of LLMs changed that. With structured data from our data warehouse, LLMs now help reduce errors like hallucinations and scale efficiently. What results have you seen so far from implementing LLMs? A significant applica…
…ng multidisciplinary board discussions, such as for oncology or spinal surgery. LLMs can summarize a pile of reports and cross-check them against multiple guidelines—American, European, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting…
…n, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one o…

Business value

The interviewee says tasks such as insurance approval letters that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one or two minutes with LLM support, and that the summaries streamline decision-making. The figures are the interviewee's own statement.

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…sion-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one or two minutes with LLM support. What advice would you give hospitals starting to implement LLMs? What challenge…
…against multiple guidelines—American, European, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that p…

AI capabilities

Generative AI

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…n, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one o…

Headline outcome

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…sion-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one or two minutes with LLM support. What advice would you give hospitals starting to implement LLMs? What challenge…

Use case type

Content generation

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…n, national, or hospital-specific. This capability streamlines decision-making. Another practical use is drafting letters for insurance approvals. Tasks that previously took 20 minutes per patient can now be completed in one o…
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