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HARNESSING THE POWER OF LANGUAGE MODELS FOR INTELLIGENT DIGITAL
                                                 HEALTH SERVICES




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                                      Garima, Sogani ; Swapnil, Morande ; Shashank, Shah
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                                                     1 NITI Aayog, India
                                              2 National Informatics Centre, India




                              ABSTRACT                        services hold immense potential to revolutionize healthcare
                                                              delivery  by  providing  accessible,  affordable,  and  tailored
           This research proposes a novel framework that integrates   solutions to individuals' unique health needs. Generative AI
           state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) with curated   models, such as OpenAI's GPT series, Google's BERT, and
           medical knowledge bases to enable personalized, reliable,   others,  have  demonstrated  remarkable  capabilities  in
           and  user-centric  digital  health  services.  The  architecture   understanding and generating human-like text, engaging in
           combines advanced generative models, retrieval-augmented   contextual  conversations,  and  reasoning  over  complex
           generation, and domain adaptation strategies to ensure the   information [4]. These models learn from vast amounts of
           safety  and  ethical  alignment  of  AI-driven  health   data  to  build  rich  statistical  representations  of  language,
           recommendations.   Empirical   evaluations,   including   knowledge,  and  reasoning  patterns.  By  leveraging  these
           automated  benchmarks  and  user  studies,  demonstrate  the   capabilities,  digital  health  platforms  can  offer  intelligent,
           framework's  ability  to  provide  accurate,  relevant,  and   interactive,  and  personalized  services  that  cater  to  users'
           personalized health information that resonates with patients   specific health profiles, preferences, and goals [5].  However,
           and  providers.  The  results  highlight  the  potential  of  this   realizing the full potential of generative AI in digital health
           approach to bridge the gap between general-purpose LLMs   also  presents  significant  research  challenges  [6].  These
           and domain-specific healthcare applications. However, the   include ensuring AI systems' reliability, safety, and ethical
           work  also  underscores  the  challenges  in  responsibly   alignment;  protecting  user  privacy  and  data  security;
           developing and deploying generative AI for healthcare, such   enabling  seamless  integration  with  existing  healthcare
           as safety, robustness, fairness, privacy, and interpretability.   infrastructures;  and  fostering  trust  and  adoption  among
           The research advocates for multidisciplinary collaboration   diverse  user  populations.  Addressing  these  challenges
           to address these challenges and realize the potential of AI in   requires  multidisciplinary  efforts  spanning  AI,  human-
           enhancing health and well-being worldwide. By prioritizing   computer interaction, health informatics, and social sciences.
           patient agency, clinical validity, and ethical practices, this   This research paper explores the opportunities, challenges,
           work contributes to the growing body of knowledge at the   and future directions for leveraging generative AI to enable
           intersection of AI and healthcare, laying the foundation for   personalized  digital  health  services.  It  aims  to  provide  a
           future research and innovation in personalized, equitable,   comprehensive  overview  of  the  current  state-of-the-art,
           and trustworthy AI health services.                identify key research gaps, and propose a roadmap for future
                                                              work in this important domain. The paper is organized as
              Keywords – generative AI, personalized healthcare,   follows:  Section  2  reviews  related  literature  on  AI-driven
               knowledge retrieval, language models; ethical AI   health  services;  Section  3  describes  our  proposed
                                                              methodology  based  on  generative  AI  and  knowledge
                          1.  INTRODUCTION                    retrieval; Section 4 presents result from initial experiments;
                                                              Section 5 discusses key findings and their implications; and
           The  rapid  advancement  of  artificial  intelligence  (AI)   Section 6 concludes with a summary of contributions and
           technologies, particularly in the domain of generative AI and   future research directions.
           large language models (LLMs), has opened up exciting new
           possibilities  for  delivering  personalized  digital  health   2.  LITERATURE REVIEW
           services  [1].  As  emphasized  by  the  United  Nations'
           Sustainable  Development  Goals  (SDGs)  and  the   2.1   AI in Digital Health Services
           International  Telecommunication  Union's  (ITU)  vision,
           harnessing  the  power  of  information  and  communication   The  application  of  AI  in  healthcare  and  digital  health
           technologies (ICTs) can accelerate human progress, bridge   services has been an active area of research in recent years
           digital  divides,  and  enable  sustainable  growth  and   [7].  AI  techniques  such  as  machine  learning,  natural
           development for all [2][3]. In this context, AI-driven e-health   language processing, computer vision, and robotics are being




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