In this episode of World Health Voices on OncoDaily TV, Dr. Gevorg Tamamyan sits down with Dr. Shaalan Beg, Chief Medical Officer of ConcertAI, to talk about AI rapidly entering real-world oncology, and how can it actually improve patient care without replacing physicians.
Dr. Beg disscusses how agentic AI is being developed for specific clinical tasks, why specialized healthcare AI needs more than general medical knowledge, highlighting the importance of proprietary clinical data, electronic medical records, clinical trial data, and the expertise of experienced clinicians. He also discusses the challenges of AI hallucinations, the safeguards needed to make AI trustworthy, and where AI can make the biggest difference across the cancer care and clinical research journey.
The conversation explores AI-powered clinical decision support, clinical trial matching, patient access to new treatments, physician burnout, implementation challenges, AI governance, and the importance of keeping both physicians and patients at the center of AI innovation.
Dr. Beg shares a usefull AI tool for doctors – NotebookLM – and explains how it can help physicians organize and consume medical literature more efficiently. The conversation closes with an important reminder that patients must have a voice in the development and implementation of AI, particularly as concerns around privacy and AI-assisted clinical interactions continue to evolve.