Universitätsklinikum Leipzig
The Leipzig University Hospital is relying on its own AI
Artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into hospitals!
The University Hospital Leipzig AöR (UKL) is now taking an important step in this direction: With the new system UKL-GPT, the hospital is launching an in-house AI platform that is fully compliant with data protection regulations and operated securely in its own data center.
With this development of a hospital-wide deployable company GPT, UKL is taking on a pioneering role.
The new, in-house AI assistance system supports employees in their daily clinical and administrative tasks and meets the highest data protection standards.
As Company-GPT, it was specifically developed for the requirements of a university hospital and can also work with sensitive information such as patient data or company internals.
“We wanted to take advantage of modern generative AI without compromising on data protection,” explains Dr. Robert Jacob, Commercial Director of UKL, describing the conditions for the decision.
“Many hospitals already use AI, but so far only selectively, for example for medical decision support in radiology. With UKL-GPT, we are establishing a widely available, internal assistance system for all professional groups – something that currently only exists in very few places,” Dr. Jacob continued.
The core function of UKL-GPT is an intelligent search in approximately 8,700 internal documents from the roXtra document management system – including guidelines, SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures or standard work instructions) and administrative documents.
This gives employees faster access to relevant internal knowledge and regulations.
A second component is an AI-powered text assistant (chatbot) that helps with creating emails, reports, or summaries. UKL-GPT processes up to 140 languages, thus also facilitating the integration of international colleagues.
The long-term goal is to develop the system into a central knowledge and assistance platform at Leipzig University Hospital (UKL). The plan is to continuously develop the AI platform and explore new areas of application.
The AI team is currently implementing further concrete applications, e.g. to support patient history taking or automated application creation.
Furthermore, additional internal systems such as SharePoint and network drives, as well as the entire digital patient archive with over 20 million medical documents, will be gradually integrated. Ultimately, UKL-GPT is intended to become the digital interface between the currently diverse document management and information systems, and thus also between administration and clinical processes.
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