By Fidji Simo –
Healthcare isn’t working for patients or doctors, but AI tools can help.
At this time last year, I was hospitalized for a kidney stone and developed an infection. The resident in charge took a quick look at my chart and prescribed the usual antibiotic for this kind of infection. Even though the nurse was ready to administer it, I asked her to give me a few minutes to get comfortable with the medication choice.
Because I’ve been dealing with a chronic illness for years, I had already uploaded a lot of my health records into ChatGPT. I asked whether I should be taking this antibiotic given my medical history, and ChatGPT flagged that this particular antibiotic could reactivate a very serious infection I’d had a couple of years prior.
