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Generative artificial intelligence in healthcare: A scoping review on benefits, challenges and applications

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Khadijeh Moulaei
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Atiye Yadegari
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Mahdi Baharestani
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Shayan Farzanbakhsh
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Babak Sabet
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Mohammad Reza Afrash *
DOI:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105474delete
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Background: Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is revolutionizing healthcare with solutions for complex challenges, enhancing diagnosis, treatment, and care through new data and insights. However, its integration raises questions about applications, benefits, and challenges. Our study explores these aspects, offering an overview of GAI's applications and future prospects in healthcare. Methods: This scoping review searched Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus . The selection of studies involved screening titles, reviewing abstracts, and examining full texts, adhering to the PRISMA-ScR guidelines throughout the process. Results: From 1406 articles across three databases, 109 met inclusion criteria after screening and deduplication. Nine GAI models were utilized in healthcare, with ChatGPT (n = 102, 74 %), Google Bard (Gemini) (n = 16, 11 %), and Microsoft Bing AI (n = 10, 7 %) being the most frequently employed. A total of 24 different applications of GAI in healthcare were identified, with the most common being offering insights and information on health conditions through answering questions (n = 41) and diagnosis and prediction of diseases (n = 17). In total, 606 benefits and challenges were identified, which were condensed to 48 benefits and 61 challenges after consolidation. The predominant benefits included Providing rapid access to information and valuable insights and Improving prediction and diagnosis accuracy, while the primary challenges comprised generating inaccurate or fictional content, unknown source of information and fake references for texts, and lower accuracy in answering questions. Conclusion: This scoping review identified the applications, benefits, and challenges of GAI in healthcare. This synthesis offers a crucial overview of GAI's potential to revolutionize healthcare, emphasizing the imperative to address its limitations.
Keywords:
Generative artificial intelligence
Health
Artificial intelligence

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International Journal of Medical Informatics cover
International Journal of Medical Informatics
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Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences
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