For many women, menopause symptoms like sleep problems, joint stiffness, hot flashes, and more don\u2019t bring just one doctor\u2019s appointment\u2014they bring multiple.<\/p>\n
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On average, women see \u201cfive or six doctors to try and figure out all the little parts and pieces of what\u2019s going on with your body\u201d once they hit perimenopause and menopause, Paula Schneider, CEO of the Institute Advancing Women\u2019s Health, said Tuesday at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif. \u201cAnd there\u2019s no holistic health,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Reshema Kemps-Polanco, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of pharmaceuticals company Novartis US, sees a possible fix using AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the greatest things I think that AI can do in health care is to help connect the dots and help connect the dots sooner,\u201d she said during the panel, which was sponsored by Novartis and moderated by Fortune<\/em>\u2019s Ellie Austin. \u201cMany times we try to do these things in isolation \u2026 and you make a dent here, you can make a dent there.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cBut now we can solve [these problems] in a different way: better, faster, different, cheaper,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe thing that I\u2019m hopeful for is how can companies leverage AI, and it will be multi-sector\u2014whether it\u2019s with government, with AI companies, with the industry, or what have you\u2014to start to close some of these critical care gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schneider, whose nonprofit focuses on women from age 45 on, said part of the problem starts in training. Future OB-GYNs get only \u201cabout two hours, if that\u201d of medical school education on women\u2019s midlife health. Her institute is partnering with a medical certification company to create continuing medical education for clinicians, using AI to build evidence-based training, Schneider said. It is also teaching women what questions to ask their providers.<\/p>\n
And bouncing between specialists isn\u2019t unique to menopause in women\u2019s health. Kemps-Polanco said many women face \u201ca constellation of symptoms that require women to go to different types of doctors, and each gets treated in isolation.\u201d She pointed to autoimmune conditions as another example, saying women can make up as much as 80% of patients in some cases. For Sj\u00f6gren\u2019s disease, one of the autoimmune conditions Novartis is working on, she said patients wait an average of four years for a diagnosis.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where Kemps-Polanco sees an opportunity for using AI. A patient might see a dermatologist, a rheumatologist, and a primary care doctor, she said, and \u201cyou can\u2019t always count on those records being connected.\u201d She has seen the problem firsthand. Sitting in an emergency room with symptoms she didn\u2019t know were connected, she typed them into an AI tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I don\u2019t know how accurate it was, but it did help me have a conversation,\u201d she said. \u201cIt really got me thinking [about] what is now possible for patients\u2014women, men, what have you\u2014to be able to now connect those dots and get screening, treatment, diagnosis, and cure sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wendy Barnes, president and CEO of GoodRx, said women should still look for a human in the loop. Asked how to evaluate the wave of new midlife health platforms, she said care should be backed by clinical evidence and patients should be able to \u201cengage with an actual clinician, as opposed to it completely being AI enabled.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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