ChatGPT and AI: How Does Health Care Handle 1.0?

Health care, including hospital medicine, isn’t exactly known as the professional land of early adopters—and for good reason. The regulations that govern the care of hospitalized patients can’t allow just every new application, website, or technology to get its hands on patient information. And hospitalists can’t just rely on Google searches to come up with the right approach to a particularly difficult diagnosis. But can it help? Can hospital medicine embrace the latest technology in real time? Well, ChatGPT is a test case. The large-language model-based chatbot has taken the world by storm over the past year and it has hospitalists asking each other, “What are the real use cases in clinical care, their pros and cons, and rules of the still-being-built road?” “Like all new technology, there is a lot of hype that goes with it,” said Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, MHM, (@FutureDocs), dean for medical education at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. “I think of other technologies that have come, that people have hyped up in health care, and I think this one is one we’re looking at the version 1.0 for a large language model.” Not yet ready for primetime For the technologically uninitiated, ChatGPT stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that uses available content online to generate answers in response to questions posed by users. It mimics interpersonal dialogue as closely as i...
Source: The Hospitalist - Category: Hospital Management Authors: Tags: Career Practice Management Technology Source Type: research