Dr. Adam Rodman

Certainly what I've observed from like my colleagues and my students, most people use it the way you would use like a search tool when you have a question, which is, hey, I like I'm giving this person ceftriaxone.

What's the right dose for an intra-abdominal infection?

So sort of generic questions that are being interpreted through the physician.

Oh, 100%.

Yes.

Right now, most of the sort of in contact with patient data are less about physician facing decisions and more about like billing.

There are companies that are like integrating with the electronic health record.

Those are not standard yet.

And then the EHR companies themselves.

So like Epic is obviously the biggest EHR vendor in the U.S.,

They're doing a lot of work on building in native things.

So, for example, at my health system, if I want to send a message to the patient, the helpful AI at the top already has like, maybe you should say this.

It's usually not that helpful, and I don't think I've used it once in my life.

But there are a lot of those things that are being experimented on actually built into the patient's health data.

So doctors are BYO AI.

A lot of that AI use is AI scribes and decision support software.

And I'll tell you, some people are just using straight up like ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude for the decision support software.

So I think one of the reasons doctors thus far have been more positive about it than perhaps the overall population is they're largely tools that doctors are bringing themselves that they think make their lives better.

And at least not yet many things that are being imposed upon us.

Yes.