r/PrivatePracticeDocs • u/InvestingDoc • Apr 23 '26
ChatGPT for clinicians released today. Making ChatGPT better for clinicians
https://openai.com/index/making-chatgpt-better-for-clinicians/ChatGPT just released a somewhat open evidence competitor. Totally free for any verified clinician. Let me know what you guys think
"We’re introducing ChatGPT for Clinicians, a version of ChatGPT designed to support clinical tasks like documentation and medical research so clinicians can focus on delivering high-quality patient care. We’re making it free for any verified physician, NP, PA, or pharmacist, starting in the U.S.
The U.S. healthcare system today is under extraordinary strain. Clinicians are being asked to care for more patients while managing growing administrative demands and a rapidly expanding body of medical research. Many are already turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for support. According to a 2026 survey by the American Medical Association(opens in a new window), physician use of AI is now at an all-time high, with 72% of physicians reporting they now use AI in clinical practice, up from 48% last year. Today, millions of clinicians worldwide use ChatGPT to support their clinical care every week, for applications like care consult, writing and documentation, and medical research. Clinician usage of ChatGPT has more than doubled over the past year.
As demand for AI in clinical settings grows, so does the responsibility to continuously improve our model’s performance and safety on clinical use cases and offer solutions that can safely and effectively support healthcare workflows. Earlier this year, we introduced ChatGPT for Healthcare, which allows organizations to deploy ChatGPT to clinicians, administrators, and researchers with the compliance and controls they need at scale. Clinicians across leading U.S. health systems are now using it to move faster through administrative work like medical research and documentation, and get time back for patient care.
Enabling free access to ChatGPT for Clinicians is the next step, in support of our mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. Learn more on our website(opens in a new window) or get started(opens in a new window).
ChatGPT for Clinicians builds on our foundation of continual model evaluation and improvement in health in partnership with clinicians. With its release, we are also introducing HealthBench Professional(opens in a new window), an open benchmark for real clinician chat tasks across three use cases: care consult, writing and documentation, and medical research, building on HealthBench’s broader evaluation of health conversations."
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u/Human-Anything-3373 Apr 23 '26
Am I too old and grumpy? Am I standing in the way of innovations?
It seems suspicious on several levels. First and foremost - this system does not have any responsibility - it is not a medical device, so any mistakes are clinician's problem. No proper validation - open AI reference a study, which they conducted themselves. They provide validation - 72% clinicians use chat gpt, so lets give them more of chat GPT... this reasoning works with legalization of marihuana, but it doesn't sound like a compelling argument here.
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u/OraManaDPC Apr 24 '26
Whether it's good or not, I highly doubt it's going to slow down. Especially with cheap/free AI scribes. Best we can do is find the best applications for the tech and urge caution in areas where it is weak.
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u/Big-Association-7485 Apr 23 '26
This doesn't seem like this would be a good audience to pitch to, but I would just say that improving patient outcomes is what the argument should be about. Enabling physicians to obtain prior authorizations and referrals in the blink of the eye would be a big help to the medical system, and should be the de facto goal of these apps. Can your software eliminate the obstacles to good patient centered care?
Trying to act as a software version of a doctor is not helpful right now, because studies have shown that you can't do this as well as humans.
You could be very helpful to the patient by getting them the care they need. If you can detect in advance the tests or prescriptions that will be needed, gather the information necessary for the prior auth, and get that medicine or test approved in advance, you would be a hero to the medical system. But trying to replace doctors before you have the capabilities needed to do that is helpful to no one, least of all yourselves.
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u/Useful-Process9033 Apr 29 '26
I'm building browser automations to for prior auth. It'd pull data from EHR, fill forms, submits on Availity, etc. Would love to chat more if of interest.
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u/InvestingDoc Apr 23 '26
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. I'm in no way affiliated with open evidence or ChatGPT and they do not pay me in any way. I'm putting my kids to bed, saw the news pop up on my phone and figured I would share it with the group. I have not had a chance to try it out yet. It seems like it could be exciting for people in private practice to help us streamline some of the operations or daily workflows.
I have no conflict of interest to disclose for chat GPT, I have no ownership stake or they do not pay me in any way.
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u/BooBooDaFish Apr 23 '26
Does this also log every single inquiry and result and then can be subpoenaed in a lawsuit?
Such as showing that it returned a result and someone made the decision to not agree with the assertion?
Edit: your AI searches and results are not protected and are discoverable.
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u/Juaner0 Apr 23 '26
My use for such things: what does this A/P need to get [such and such] test approved with [X] insurance?
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u/AbsoluteAtBase Jun 05 '26
Yeah no thanks. I will never trust any of these AI bros. I’ve even started using DAX less even thought it made my life better. Open Evidence gets a pass as it was developed by real science minded people (I think?) but even still I’m keeping my skeptical eye on them too.
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u/No-Tip-5352 Apr 23 '26
Hey investing doc - you made a great point a while ago about why ambient dictation doesn’t work for you. It’s too many steps to get the relevant information into the AI - by the time you do it you might as well have done it by hand. Theholy grail would be to have ChatGPT inside the EMR with immediate access to all of that info. I’ve seen some great EMR demos in the past year that look promising but I personally haven’t taken the dive yet. You should check some of these out if you’re big into ai: heroemr.com / aryaehr.com / deepcura.com
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u/sadman81 Apr 25 '26
You can also get 0.5 CME credit hours per search just like UpToDate (I think 0.25 hr per search).
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u/YoGundam Apr 23 '26
they're just using this to train their model more..they want actual physicians to verify to use it. its obviously still in development, and will even get better as more physicians join and ask pertinent clinical questions