"Akido Labs, a Los Angeles-based health care technology company that runs clinics and street medicine teams in California, plans to start using its AI model on homeless and housing insecure patients in the Bay Area next month. The program generates questions for outreach workers to ask patients and then suggests diagnoses, medical tests and even medication, which a human doctor then signs off on remotely."
"The idea is to save doctors time and allow them to see more patients. RELATED: From NIMBY to YIMBY: San Jose forges difficult path to winning over neighbors in sheltering homeless The new model, called Scope AI, is addressing a very real problem: There aren't nearly enough doctors visiting encampments and shelters. At the same time, homeless Californians are in much poorer health and are dying earlier than the general population."
"There are individuals who haven't seen doctors for years. There are individuals who haven't seen a dentist ever, said Steve Good, president and CEO of Five Keys, which is partnering with Akido to launch the AI technology in its San Francisco homeless shelters. There just aren't enough resources to go in there and find out the needs these individuals have."
Akido Labs will deploy an AI model, Scope AI, to assist outreach teams serving homeless and housing-insecure patients in the Bay Area. The system generates questions for outreach workers, suggests diagnoses, medical tests and possible medications, and enables remote physician sign-off. The goal is to save clinician time and increase patient reach amid a shortage of doctors visiting encampments and shelters. Homeless Californians face worse health and earlier mortality, and many lack routine medical or dental care. Researchers say AI could expand access if implemented carefully, but diagnostic use raises concerns about data privacy, algorithmic bias and patient outcomes.
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