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AISHA-Align: Strengthening Healthcare Evidence Synthesis in South Africa

Scott Mahoney and Lara Fairall of The Health Foundation of South Africa in South Africa will enhance the AI-Supported Healthcare Assistant (AISHA) prototype, which summarizes clinical recommendations from diverse evidence sources, as a public health tool supporting clinicians, policymakers, and health educators. They will incorporate a Large Language Model to track and analyze updates in healthcare guidelines, including identifying inconsistencies between them at the global, regional, and local levels. They will also expand the database of guidelines to comprehensively cover prevalent health conditions, starting with those managed in a primary care setting in South Africa. For ongoing improvement of the AISHA tool, they will create programs bringing together local stakeholders with AI and healthcare experts from the global community. Better synthesis of healthcare evidence through AISHA will improve and expedite public health policy decision-making.

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