Physio: An LLM-Based Physiotherapy Advisor
This addresses the need for trustworthy AI in healthcare to safeguard patient well-being, though it appears incremental by combining existing methods for source verification.
The paper tackles the problem of unreliable text generation by large language models in healthcare by introducing Physio, a chat-based physiotherapy advisor that provides initial diagnoses, exercise recommendations, and medication suggestions while citing reliable sources, with a live demo available.
The capabilities of the most recent language models have increased the interest in integrating them into real-world applications. However, the fact that these models generate plausible, yet incorrect text poses a constraint when considering their use in several domains. Healthcare is a prime example of a domain where text-generative trustworthiness is a hard requirement to safeguard patient well-being. In this paper, we present Physio, a chat-based application for physical rehabilitation. Physio is capable of making an initial diagnosis while citing reliable health sources to support the information provided. Furthermore, drawing upon external knowledge databases, Physio can recommend rehabilitation exercises and over-the-counter medication for symptom relief. By combining these features, Physio can leverage the power of generative models for language processing while also conditioning its response on dependable and verifiable sources. A live demo of Physio is available at https://physio.inesctec.pt.