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Implementing large language models in healthcare while balancing control, collaboration, costs and security

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Dennstädt, Fabio, Hastings, Janna, Putora, Paul Martin, Schmerder, Max, Cihoric, Nikola·2025·npj Digital Medicine

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Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into healthcare promises substantial advancements but requires careful consideration of technical, ethical, and regulatory challenges. Closed LLMs of private companies offer ease of deployment but pose risks related to data privacy and vendor dependence. Open LLMs deployed on local hardware enable greater model customization but demand resources and technical expertise. Balancing these approaches, with collaboration among clinicians, researchers, and companies is crucial to ensure effective, secure, and ethical implementation.

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  • Deploying large language models in clinical settings is limited by security, reliability, latency, and accessibility concerns that favor smaller, on-device or on-premise models.

    “Deploying large language models (LLMs) in clinical settings is limited by security, reliability, latency, and accessibility concerns that favor smaller, on-device or on-premise models.”

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    The “Closed vs. open LLMs” section says that hosting models within a healthcare facility can reduce data-security risks and provide more control over outputs. It does not identify latency as a concern or recommend smaller, on-device models; it also says the choice between local and API-based systems depends on the task. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Dennstädt, F., Hastings, J., Putora, P. M., Schmerder, M., & Cihoric, N.
Affiliations
  • University of Bern (CH)
  • SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
Corresponding author
Dennstädt, Fabio
Venue
npj Digital Medicine
Published
2025-03-06
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
143-143
ISSN
2398-6352 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4408197148
Cited by
144
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 90 · 2025: 54
FWCI
34.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • npj Digital Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Keywords
large language models, data privacy, open-source LLMs, model customization, AI security, ethical considerations, regulatory challenges, clinician collaboration

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