In this episode of the Plutopia News Network Podcast, we discuss how AI is revolutionizing healthcare by empowering patients to take control of their medical decisions. Our guests, Dave DeBronkart (e-Patient Dave), Gilles Frydman, and Hugo Campos are advocates for patient autonomy and participatory medicine. We discuss how AI enables patients to interpret complex medical data, such as clinical notes and lab reports, without relying solely on healthcare professionals. AI can also aid in critical thinking, allowing patients to explore multiple medical possibilities and interventions. Our discussion highlights the balance between AI’s potential and the responsibility patients must take in navigating healthcare decisions, emphasizing the need for AI literacy to maximize its benefits.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
e-Patient Dave deBronkart:
Access to information was a huge limiting factor in how much we could do, and that has changed a lot. There was an article about patients using AI in the New York Times this summer, and it said Google is like a librarian, but AI gives you access to clinical thinking, clinical thought and it has just caused an explosion in the things that people can do. A trivial example is when I get back from a doctor visit now – because of open notes and federal policy I’m allowed to read all the gobbledygook that the doctors put in the computer, and what I do is I copy paste that into ChatGPT and I say “summarize this, what are my action items” and it digests the whole thing and says here are the problems you worked on today here’s what you’re doing about it and here are your next steps.