Artificial intelligence (IA) is transforming medicine and is already producing accelerated and rapid advances. precision in the diagnostics to through modern algorithms y learning automatic to analyze with millimetric precision images such as X-rays, laboratory tests, mammograms, CT scans, among many others.
In this regard, Publimetro Mexico spoke with Julian RiosCEO of Eden Medicala software of IA that supports the health area, which seeks to solve the deficiencies that presents the health sector in Mexico, as well as the detection early of diseases like the cancer, cardiacallowing Interventions further fast and effective.
Also, on a tour of the facilities of Decent Healthdirectors of the institution explained all the technological advances implemented that are revolutionizing their service to make it more effective and at the same time economical for the benefit of the population.
The strategy implemented by Salud Digna, through the automation of its processes and review of results with tools of artificial intelligenceallows patients to be given not only an image (such as an X-ray or mammogram), but also to accompany this study with an initial diagnosis made by comparing it with a huge database that quickly reveals warning signs.
The group is currently made up of 12 thousand members, who provide care to up to 90 thousand patients every day with services such as clinical laboratory, ultrasound, X-rays, Pap smear, electrocardiogram, tomography, densitometry, mammography, magnetic resonance imaging and even eye exams and nutritional consultation.
In it National Reference Center, in the municipality of Tlalnepantla, the doctor Diana Baldlaboratory director, explained each of the facets of the operation, highlighting that all samples taken in the region’s clinics arrive at these facilities, where tests are performed using modern equipment, which not only measure the values, but also compare them to provide an initial diagnosis.
For its part, Julian Rios He explained that the development of the tool Eden Medicalseeks to solve the shortage of professionals since “in Mexico We have a severe lack of doctors radiological. From four thousand to four thousand 500, according to statistics officials, compared to 130 million inhabitants, this means a gap huge gap between supply and demand
We cannot graduate new ones doctors radiologists overnight, it is a process that takes ocho years to educate and certify, but we can give them tools that allow them to be more accurate y productive“, explained the CEO of Eden Medical.
Quality and rapid diagnostics
Faced with a saturated system, the tools that rely on the IA and “allow the doctorwithout losing qualityver studies three times further fast than before, allowing to release that flow of patients and get to diagnostics further early“Both Ríos and Calva agreed.
“Have algorithms that help the doctor a autocompletar reports and this allows you to spend more time watching patients (…) we have algorithms that allow the measurement automatic of certain indicators anatomicalfor example, the size of the heart against the size of the abdomen, which is a measurement complicated We do this automatically or by taking measurements that are related to the lesion in mammograms so that the doctor does not waste time on these things and can focus more on the interpretation,” explained the representative of Eden Medical.
Millions of patients benefited from AI
More than six million patients have received medical care with AI, which according to Julián Ríos, among the 1,700 institutions that work together with Eden Medical, have managed to bring adequate care to “rural clinics where Spanish is not even spoken and there is no doctor on site, with a remote doctor, using our platform to do the interpretation.”
With these advances, Rivers look for this tool not only facilitate the job of the doctors experts in terms of paperwork, but rather seeks that through the IA“the virtual office of the radiating doctor”, can do “from something basic like a measurement simple, to very very complicated tools like the reconstruction multiplanar which, through artificial intelligence and construction algorithms, creates two new views“, he mentioned.
As for the images processed by the IA To give an accurate diagnosis, the specialist He stated that they see “3.5 million of images medical every day and that is something that no one doctor can do, then what we we can to do is to help him doctor to say what it was based on this data historical throughout the country.”
AI in Mexican hospitals
The CEO of Eden Medical shared a success story in the state government of Chiapas, where “there are now doctors with his specialty neurological from Mexico City what can you do? interpretations remote in minutes.
So what was once a ‘there are no doctors’, ‘I’m sorry, we won’t be able to give follow-up to you treatment Even though we have the machines to do it’, it becomes a consultation more, in one interaction more with the system of health where you can receive a diagnosis precise in time and form to be able to carry out a life normal”, he shared.
Also, other states that have this system IA It is in MorelosChihuahua, other states in the norte and also in the private system.
“We are in the start of a great transformation and there are many more opportunities what Limitations, but the health It is not something that should be taken lightly, it is a field which depends on doubts and I think it is very important not to leave aside the innovation combined with quality that we can transmit by half of investigation scientific by means of certificates of regulations of organisms international that endorse the quality of what we do and we have invested a lot in that,” he explained.
Diversification of services
By the end of 2024, Salud Digna will have a total of 235 active clinics in more than 80 different cities in the 32 states of the country, and a presence in Central America with its service units in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Each year it serves more than 18 million patients, as one of its main institutional objectives is to contribute from the social sector to the work carried out by the public and private sectors.
An example of the innovations implemented is the creation of a comprehensive diagnostic program to care for patients who may be at risk of developing cancer, through the first Salud Digna Biopsy Unit, located within the Coyoacán clinic in Mexico City.
A biopsy is a procedure that involves removing a small amount of tissue from an area of the body where cancer is suspected. This tissue is sent to a clinical laboratory, where a specialist doctor, with the help of cutting-edge technology, analyses the sample to confirm or rule out the presence of cancer cells.
This is relevant because breast cancer is the most common cancer in Mexico, with 27,500 cases per year, so the Salud Digna Biopsy Unit focused on treating these two conditions. Later, it will offer tomosynthesis studies, contrast mammography and stereotactic biopsy.
