Medical Information Assistant (Vidal-based)

Description

Develop an assistant that answers questions about medications, their uses, side effects, and interactions based on the French medical handbook Vidal.

Use Case

Assist healthcare professionals or patients by providing reliable, up-to-date information on medications available in France, ensuring safe and informed usage.

Challenges

• Handling medical terminology
• Ensuring accuracy in safety-critical information
• Adhering to legal and ethical guidelines in providing drug-related advice

Reference Data

• Dictionnaire VIDAL from 2018
• VIDAL online (Only patient-destined information is public; technical information is proprietary and reserved for healthcare professionals.)

Main Criteria to be Satisfied

• In case of listing, ensure that everything is listed.
• For sensitive information that could have a high impact, recommend consulting a professional.
• If the information is not available, state that it cannot be provided.
• Ensure the information is up-to-date.
• Prioritize accuracy and clarity; use the correct medical terminology.
• Recommend the active ingredient (molecule) where applicable.
• Responses must be in French.
• Give information about the posologie.

Benchmark

• Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard The Open Medical LLM Leaderboard aims to track, rank and evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) on medical question answering tasks. see : https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-medicalllm