The Future of Surgical Decision-Making in Value-Based Healthcare
By Sumona Bose
January 17, 2024
The Challenge of Surgical Decision-Making
The future of healthcare rests on the integration of Artificial intelligence (AI) into its decision making methodologies. Surgical decision-making is a complex process, often dominated by individual judgement, hypothetical-deductive reasoning, and heuristics. These factors can lead to bias, error, and preventable harm. Traditional predictive analytics and clinical decision-support systems aim to augment this process, but their effectiveness is often compromised by time-consuming manual data management and suboptimal accuracy.
Figure 1: Surgical Decision Making Paradigm
The Role of AI in Surgical Decision-Making
AI offers a promising solution to these challenges. Automated AI models, fed by livestreaming electronic health record data with mobile device outputs, can overcome the limitations of traditional systems. This approach requires data standardisation, advances in model interpretability, careful implementation and monitoring, and attention to ethical challenges involving algorithm bias and accountability for errors.
Figure 2: Summary of AI Techniques
AI and Value-Based Healthcare
The integration of AI with surgical decision-making has the potential to develop care. It can augment the decision to operate, the informed consent process, identification and mitigation of modifiable risk factors, decisions regarding postoperative management, and shared decisions regarding resource use. This aligns with the principles of value-based healthcare, a model that life sciences consulting and pharma market access professionals are increasingly advocating for. The future of healthcare aligns to different forms of innovative healthcare technologies.
For instance, AI can help in optimal price determination, a key aspect of value-based healthcare. By analysing large datasets, AI can help determine the most effective treatments and their associated costs, aiding in dynamic pricing and outcomes-based pricing strategies. This is a key area of focus for artificial intelligence consulting companies and firms.
In conclusion, AI has the potential to significantly improve surgical decision-making, aligning with the principles of value-based healthcare. As we move towards a more data-driven healthcare system, the role of AI will only become more prominent.
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