Anthony Chang, MD, chief intelligence and innovation officer of Orange, Calif.-based Children’s Hospital of Orange County, told Becker’s he uses ChatGPT in the clinic “every hour.”
The pediatric cardiologist cited the example of a patient who had started on an antiseizure medication he wasn’t familiar with. So he asked ChatGPT more about its mechanics and interactions. He double-checked its answer but said it was “spot on.”
“It’s really, really going to change the face of clinical medicine in a very big way,” he said. “When these large language models combine with all of medical literature, all of electronic records and all of medical imaging, to essentially build this big portfolio of medical knowledge, it’s going to be the smartest doctor on the planet.”
Since he became the nation’s first health system chief intelligence officer, in 2015, Dr. Chang first witnessed a gradual growth in healthcare artificial intelligence — then an explosion of it in more recent years. Read more.
