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Kahun - an interactive medical knowledge base, for modeling medical knowledge and managing diagnostic processes, as well medical knowledge related to COVID-19.

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Kahun (Kahun - an interactive medical knowledge base, for modeling medical knowledge and managing diagnostic processes, as well medical knowledge related to COVID-19.)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2020-08-01 al 2021-07-31

With 30M+ PubMed articles, physicians need help finding the knowledge relevant to their ‎patients. Even physicians with access to these publications may be either working alone in ‎remote locations or overloaded with patients with less time to consult new research to ‎support their diagnosis and decisions.‎

Kahun brings updated, integrated medical knowledge to physicians in an intuitive, actionable ‎way that can’t be achieved through text-based tools. The AI engine generates and infers from ‎a huge knowledge graph that links diseases, findings, complications, risk factors, causal ‎information, and statistics. The platform is continuously updated to integrate knowledge from ‎across the medical literature and epidemiologic databases.‎

Objectives of the H2020 grant project: to improve the platform's usability, refine the model, ‎research regulatory and security requirements, and ongoing internal knowledge graph ‎building, all with the goal of making the product ready for commercialization.‎
Kahun launched a COVID-19 dedicated knowledge map/symptomizer along with a newly ‎released V2.0 of the platform with a reworked UI/UX, data input and flow of the Kahun ‎diagnosis assistant to improve ease-of-use, information collection, suggestions accuracy, and ‎input time. Ongoing tasks include improving the model and solving algorithm in the backend of ‎V2.0 ongoing knowledge graph content building and moderation, and researching compliance ‎requirements. Kahun is working on equity WPs including the next step engine, updating the ‎medical knowledge editor, and communicating and disseminating the project and platform. ‎
State of the art solutions are either designed for patients or are virtual care companies using AI ‎to provide chat-based primary care, neither of which address findings related to ‎physical tests, ‎labs, imaging, etc. They don’t deal with less prevalent ‎diseases, but rather focus on the most ‎common ones. Tools offering differential diagnosis for physicians do not offer clinical ‎reasoning, links to ‎sources, or guided workup like Kahun.‎

By the end of the project, Kahun will have completed V2 of the Kahun application, both ‎frontend and backend, including UI/UX, data input methodology, improved model and solving ‎algorithm, and expanded medical knowledge graph. ‎

Social benefits: 1st class care for billions in developing countries, improve diagnosis and ‎patient care despite reduced expert staff, prevent misdiagnosis, and support/guidance to ‎medical students and young physicians. ‎
Kahun app