Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 21, 2026 42 min watch Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ” data-action=subscribe> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio Key takeaways: Using AI outside the clinic can help doctors get acquainted with it before applying it to clinical situations. AI models are useful for different types of tasks depending on how they were trained. Doctors who have not yet started using AI tools should first get comfortable using them in everyday life before adopting them in clinical practice. That is the advice from optometrist Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO, a member of the Healio AI Advisory Board who has been using AI in various areas of his practice. \u201cYou learn to use the tool in a much less stressful environment,\u201d Edmonds said. \u201cYou learn how the model works and how it thinks. … Then when I go to use it in the real world, in the clinic, I\u2019m more attuned. I\u2019m not afraid of it. I know what to ask it. \u201cPlay with it in everyday life first, and then take your knowledge base, go into the clinic and use it.\u201d Edmonds joined Hansa Bhargava, MD, Healio\u2019s chief clinical strategy and innovation officer, in a Healio Community webinar focused on AI in health care. He explained that his practice had not adopted AI until a patient who was a specialist in large language models, the technology behind services such as ChatGPT, explained how it could be beneficial. \u201cShe started telling me her background and asking me why we didn\u2019t use [AI] in our practice. And I was like, \u2018Well, I\u2019m not really sure how,\u2019\u201d Edmonds said. \u201cShe gave me CliffsNotes, and within a week, we started to use it. Within a month, we were using it every single day, especially the AI scribes, which were just really a no-brainer for the kind of work we do in terms of capturing clinical data and putting it into a format that\u2019s medically and legally easy.\u201d Since then, his office\u2019s use of AI has expanded. One way he frequently uses large language models is to keep up with the potential side effects and drug interactions of medications patients are taking, particularly ones newly approved by the FDA. \u201c[Patients] expect you to know. And unless you\u2019re using this kind of model, you can\u2019t keep up,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s very helpful in everyday clinical practice because a day doesn\u2019t go by there isn\u2019t a new drug that somebody\u2019s asking me about.\u201d Edmonds explained that different AI chatbots are better for different purposes. He described ChatGPT as a \u201cSwiss Army Knife of AI\u201d trained on a wide variety of information, peer reviewed or not. On the other hand, products such as Healio AI ingest a more targeted range of fact-checked information and could be more appropriate for use in health care. Still, Edmonds cautioned that the answers from AI cannot necessarily be trusted. \u201cIt isn\u2019t the end-all be-all. It has to be just a piece of information,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s only as good as, A, the database and, B, how you prompted it.\u201d For more information: Hansa Bhargava, MD, can be reached at primarycare@healio.com. Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO, can be reached at optometry@healio.com. Published by: Sources\/Disclosures Source: Webinars Disclosures: Bhargava is Healio\u2019s chief clinical strategy and innovation officer. Edmonds reports no relevant financial disclosures. Ask a clinical question and tap into Healio AI’s knowledge base. PubMed, enrolling\/recruiting trials, guidelines Clinical Guidance, Healio CME, FDA news Healio’s exclusive daily news coverage of clinical data Learn more Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ” data-action=subscribe> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. 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