Mint explainer: Dr ChatGPT is here. What does it mean for users and healthtech?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 7-8 January, OpenAI rolled out two healthcare products: ChatGPT Health for users and ChatGPT for Healthcare, for organizations in the industry. While ChatGPT Health is an extension of the existing chatbot, offering a space dedicated for health, the latter aims to automate workflows for healthcare organizations, a niche where Indian healthtech firms have attracted investor interest.
These products could likely disrupt the patient care landscape in India and impact nascent startups working on the same solutions. So, what does this really mean? Mint explains. ChatGPT Health allows users to input their medical records and lab tests, ask health-related questions, integrate health wearables and wellness apps and even track their GLP-1 usage.
The tool helps users understand lab results, prepare for doctor appointments and design diet and workout plans. There’s a waitlist, and users with ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans outside of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK are eligible. ChatGPT for Healthcare, on the other hand, offers high-quality responses and relevant medical research for clinicians and researchers to help them diagnose patients faster.
It also targets organisations for administrative use-cases, with products like shared templates for common tasks such as drafting discharge summaries, patient instructions, clinical letters, and prior authorization support. ChatGPT for Healthcare has already been rolled out in some leading US institutions like Boston Children’s Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, and University of California, San Francisco. Actually, using ChatGPT for health is
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