Clinicians at participating health systems can now bring patient records from Epic, the widely used electronic health record system, into ChatGPT for Healthcare, OpenAI announced on Sept. 1. Authorized clinicians can pull in appointment notes, lab results, medications, and specialist documentation, then ask the AI to summarize a patient's history or flag what has changed since the last visit.
For patients, the shift is mostly invisible but potentially significant. The clinician preparing for your next appointment may be reading an AI-generated summary of your chart instead of clicking through it tab by tab. That could save time, but it also raises fair questions about accuracy, privacy, and what gets left out.
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