Nantes. AI at the service of CHU nursing and administrative staff

Published: 10:53 a.m. – Modified: 10:55 a.m. by Dolorès CHARLES

It’s the front page of the newspaper this Thursday.Today in France” : “AI, why we need to get started in 2025″. The Nantes University Hospital Data Clinic has launched a Call for Expressions of Interest (AMI) for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the health establishment’s services. An AI equivalent to Chat GPT, but created by the University Hospital, for the benefit of caregivers and administrative staff.

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For Professor Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, at the origin of the project, the idea is to be more efficient. “Eindeed, this concerns everyone and there are many sectors of healthcare activity where we can gain productivity and for the moment it is not a bad word. We can make discharge letters easier for patients, perhaps change the way we prescribe their care, or the notes we give them… These are all possible use cases that we are considering with this Call for expressions of interest within the establishment.”

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Does the use of AI, paradoxically, amount to dehumanizing a profession that puts humans at the center of its concerns? It’s quite the opposite according to Professor Pierre-Antoine Gourraud. “Technological tools are first and foremost what we do with them and paradoxically, in a medicine which is more steeped in technology, these tools are perhaps the opportunity for the future caregivers that they are, the opportunity to be even more a mediator between the immense knowledge that we accumulate, and the patient who comes with his questions, his pathology and his family.

More human tools?

Maybe, the development of these digital tools, these artificial intelligence tools, are, if we decide, the opportunity to ultimately be more human by being caregivers.”

This sovereign hospital AI is similar to Chat GPT, but it will protect patient data. It is the only one that can legally use this technology. “We would dream of having a GPT cat that we could use in the hospital, explains Professor Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, but the problem is that you cannot use Chat GPT with the data that concerns you. It would be a betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath to send them to a server. Hippocrates already told us 2,000 years ago “Admitted into the privacy of homes, I will keep silent the secrets that will be entrusted to me.”

“We have the ambition to propose an equivalent of Chad GPT which will be sovereign”

With this project, we have the ambition to propose an equivalent of Chad GPT which will be sovereign, which will be inside the CHU De Nantes, so that the staff of the CHU can use legally to format a report, rewrite a note or write several versions that would be easier for patients to access.”

Four use cases of this Artificial Intelligence were retained, namely assistance with writing, management of the organization or administrative tasks, image analysis or flow management.

More than fifty people responded to the University Hospital’s Call for Expressions of Interest.