Kahun, the evidence-based, clinical-reasoning engine for doctors, launches a pilot with samedi, a Berlin-based healthcare software and telemedicine company. Through the pilot, patients arriving at digital health centers throughout Germany undergo a clinical assessment using Kahun's clinically validated explainable AI (XAI) chatbot. Kahun offers participating doctors and nurses pre-visit clinical insights that cover the patient's symptoms and leave more time to focus on the treatment plan during visits with a certified telemedical assistant, relieving burnout in underserved German communities.
One in three doctors in Germany is older than 60 and therefore nearing retirement, a stat sent to worsen the country's rural doctor shortage. The German health ministry has earmarked €23 billion ($25 billion) to tackle the shortage, and generative AI has renewed hopes that AI can play a role in providing doctors with clinical support to relieve burnout and improve patient care. But while large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have shown impressive human-like text fluency, they don't actually think like a doctor. LLMs produce their output by filling in the blank with the most statistically probable word without understanding the surrounding context or explaining how they arrived at their conclusions, making them unsuitable for clinical use.
Kahun tackles this challenge by offering participating doctors its XAI clinical intake tool that masters medical literature and explains its reasoning, all while leveraging ChatGPT's richness and text fluency. Upon the patient's arrival at one of samedi's digital health centers, Kahun performs a clinical assessment before a human healthcare provider even sees them. Kahun's chatbot then provides the doctors with all necessary insights into a potential diagnosis and suggests next steps for diagnostics to be run by a telemedical assistant, leaving more time to focus on the treatment plan.
"While looking for clinical-assessment software that could serve physicians, we kept running into symptom checkers oriented toward patients," says Alexander R. Baasner M.Sc., Director of Medical Operations at samedi. "Those simply don't cut it for doctors. Kahun is the only AI engine on the market that actually replicates the doctor's thought process and provides them with an explainable, ready-to-use clinical assessment. This is exactly the kind of tool the industry needs-not only in Germany, but globally-to ease burnout and improve the quality of care."
"It's truly thrilling to be breaking into the German market," says Dr. Michal Tzuchman Katz, CEO and Co-Founder of Kahun. "Especially through an integration with a company like samedi, which is actively leveraging cutting-edge technology to boost care in remote and underserved communities in the country. Kahnu's XAI clinical-intake tool will help thousands of patients throughout Germany gain access to higher quality care directly as a result of its ability to support doctors in their clinical work."
