Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 427: The Role of GenAI in Modern Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

GenAI is revolutionizing healthcare, driving innovation in patient outcomes, provider support, and operational efficiency. But with new technology come challenges: What hurdles stand in the way of adoption? We’ll explore the transformative potential of GenAI, the real-world obstacles, and how it’s redefining the future of medicine with William Horton, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Included Health.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Ask Jordan and William questions on AI in HealthcareUpcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:1. AI Usage in Healthcare2. Opportunities and Concerns of AI in Healthcare3. Future of Healthcare with AI4. Challenges in U.S. healthcare5. System Integration and Data InteroperabilityTimestamps:00:00 Google integrates Gemini AI into search functionality.04:04 Gemini 2.0 allows multimodal interactions, competitor.08:57 Gen AI advances in healthcare administration and care.11:05 HIPAA ensures data protection with BAAs.13:23 Reducing physician burnout by minimizing administrative tasks.18:37 Virtual triage by intelligent bots for symptoms.22:33 AI parallels self-driving cars: apprehensive adoption persists.25:54 Using AI for personal health data analysis.28:26 AI privacy concerns impact doctor-patient conversations.|31:24 AI, personal data, and healthcare integration trend.33:08 AI empowers patients, despite valid fears.Keywords:AI in healthcare, Jordan Wilson, youreverydayai.com, healthcare podcasts, AI tools in healthcare, audience engagement, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, AI medical diagnostics, AI in healthcare challenges, privacy concerns with AI, HIPAA compliance, virtual healthcare, wearable technology, AI and patient empowerment, AI and healthcare system improvement, physician shortages, telemedicine, AI-based triage, AI medical scribing, multimodal models in healthcare, data interoperability in healthcare. healthcare industry standards, FHIR, Google Gemini, OpenAI, William Horton, Included Health, machine learning in healthcare.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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especially here in the U.S., right? Sometimes I'm still scratching my head. Like, why does it seem like the, you know, healthcare and medical fields in the U.S., at least, are 10 years behind, right? I understand. There's so many privacy concerns. But I think the role of generative AI in modern healthcare is quickly changing. So today we're going to be talking about both some of the challenges and opportunities and

see, well, hey, as we roll into 2025, is the landscape going to be shifting or are we still going to be stuck in this kind of AI healthcare sitting on the fence sort of thing that we've been in the last year or two? All right. I'm excited for today's conversation. Hope you are too. Welcome to Everyday AI. What's going on, y'all? My name's Jordan Wilson. I'm the host of Everyday AI. This thing is for you. This is a daily live stream podcast, free daily newsletter, helping us all learn and leverage generative AI to grow our companies and our careers.

So even if you aren't in the healthcare medical fields, this is something that obviously impacts us all. So I'm excited for today's conversation. I'm also excited for you to go to your EverydayAI.com. We will be recapping the highlights and even giving deeper insights from today's interview in our free daily newsletter. So make sure you go check that out on our website. And also go check out more than 430 back episodes. You can go listen to them all, watch them all, read about them all on our website, sort of by category. It is probably the best source of unbiased information on generative AI on the entire internet. So make sure you go check that out.

All right, before we get into today's conversation, let's first start off with the AI news and there's a ton. So Google search is apparently going to change and start rolling out a dedicated AI mode. So reports indicate that the new AI mode in Google search will closely resemble Google's Gemini AI chatbot, which has been operating separately from the search engine. So the introduction of this mode is expected to expand Gemini's audience as, billions of users via Google Search will now have access to an AI-enhanced search functionality. So early tests of the AI mode inside Google Search have been spotted in the Google app and on Android devices, suggesting that a rollout across the wider landscape may be imminent.

A new shortcut button for AI mode has been identified in a recent APK teardown, allowing users to quickly switch to this feature and refine their searches with follow-up questions. Interesting here. So it looks like Google may be following in the path of chat GPT search and perplexity. So we'll see how that one rolls out. Speaking of Google, Google's been crushing it the past two weeks. So Google also unveiled Gemini 2.0 Flash thinking. All right.

So we saw Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, but now we have Flash. thinking. Essentially, their answer or their version of Open AIs O1 model that does this more chain of thought or reasoning under the hood. So a different kind of, you know, quote unquote AI chatbot. So Google Gemini's 2.0 flash thinking both advanced reasoning abilities, enabling it to solve complex problems rapidly while revealing its internal planning steps. That's the big thing. So we have a little bit more transparency under the hood. Pretty interesting. responded to Andre Carpathie on Twitter and about his thoughts on it. So I'll share that in the newsletter if you want to see.

So the model supports multimodal inputs and outputs, allowing users to interact with images, videos, and audio, which could enhance user engagement and creativity in various applications. So Gemini 2.0 is being positioned as a competitor to open a I's O1 model, which has received positive feedback for its powerful reasoning capabilities. So it is available right now for free in Google's AI Studio. Just know if you're using Google's AI Studio, you can't really opt out of training.

So just keep that in mind before you throw sensitive documents at this new 2.0 flash. All right. Last piece of AI news for today. It is the 12th day of Open AI's 12 days of ship miss. All right. So according to reports, Open AI is poised to potentially reveal a new AI model, called 03. Okay, interesting. So according to the information, the new model, O3, is expected to replace O1, which was just fully released like a couple of weeks ago.

So reports suggest that the decision to skip O2 is in part due to a UK telecom company's existing use of the same name. In OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman had a cryptic tweet after he said, ho, ho, ho. He said, should have said, oh, oh, oh, 3. That's what people are pointing to. And experts speculate that 03 may have the ability to tackle evaluation test designed to assess artificial general intelligence. So yeah, are we actually going to get a model today that is AGI? I don't know. We'll see. I'm guessing we're going to get a live stream blog post and waitlist. All right. So if you want to know more, make sure to go to your everyday AI.com. Sign up for the free Daily Newsletter, we'll be recapping those stories and a whole lot more.

All right, but you probably tuned in today to hear or to listen or to ask questions about the role of generative AI in healthcare. All right, so I'm excited to bring on to the show our guest for today. Please, live stream audience, help me in welcoming William Horton, staff machine learning engineer at Included Health. William, thank you so much for joining the Everyday AI show. Thank you so much for having me. Oh, man, so much AI news going on today.

Took a minute. William was just waiting patiently there in the waiting room. But can you tell us a little bit about what you do in your role at Included Health? Yes. So I work on our machine learning platform team. And in the last year and a half, a lot of that has been around building a platform for generative AI. That's kind of the big topic now. So what I've been working on with my team is building tools that let people do different things with large language models, and that's, you know, access the latest and greatest, evaluate the outputs, learn more about how they can prompt effectively, as well as serving models internally. So we're kind of building a whole set of tools to let people really use these things effectively.

Yeah. And, you know, before we get too deep into today's topic, could you even just tell us all in case those those that aren't aware, what is included health? What do you all do? Yeah, that's a good question. So included health, kind of our motto is all included care. And so what we offer is a combination of health benefits navigation as well as telemedicine to work with a patient through their entire journey. So our members, we call the members, they can come to us with questions about, you know, what do I pick during open enrollment? That's a very popular one. Or, you know, what would I pay to go see a primary care physician? But we can take that. all the way to saying, okay, if you need actual health care, we have doctors on staff, we can do virtual urgent care, behavioral health, primary care for you through telemedicine. So we're kind of selling this all in one journey for the patient through included health. All right. So I know this is going to be the most open-ended and vague question I could possibly ask William,

but can you give us an overview of where we're at right now, at least. here in the U.S. with AI and healthcare and the medical field because, you know, we've had some great guests on the show before. But it seems like, at least to me, that this, you know, because of privacy concerns, HIPAA, right, so many things, it seems like to me that the field's not going as quickly as other sectors, probably for reasons that make a ton of sense. But can you just give us, like, a super zoomed out view of like, where the heck are we at? Yeah. I'll give you my zoomed out view of health care. I think that, you know, there's obviously, like you said, security and privacy concerns when it comes to this and also, you know, considering the risk that goes into making these

decisions. I think, you know, Jen AI has made a lot of progress in certain areas, I think mostly in kind of back office or administrative tasks. So you see a ton of companies now in the medical scribing business as a very popular thing or otherwise trying to streamline operations, I think that's a very rich area that's already seen a lot of progress. But at the same time, you know, people are starting to push the frontier of bringing it to into actual patient care and patient questions. So I think the first kind of stage of that, if you look at it broadly, is companies that, you know, let people ask questions or try to answer, you know, medical things, kind of like WebMD, but smarter. I'm sure there's a lot going on in that.

that space. And then I think the next level, which you don't see yet, but the research is getting there is how do we use medicine as a diagnostic, or sorry, how do we use the models as a diagnostic tool in medicine? So there's papers already that are saying, how can we get them to help doctors figure out complicated cases? And I don't think you see that widespread right now due to the risks involved, but that's kind of the next step. I would see it, looking at the kind of global landscape. Yeah, and maybe, you know, I just assume everyone understands the privacy concerns, but, you know, William, from someone on your side, can you explain what those are, right? Like, is it, you know, because a lot of people say, well, you know, hey, what's the difference, right? What's the

difference if our, you know, healthcare organization, you know, uses, you know, Google's cloud. You know, like, what's the difference if we're actually then using or, you know, tapping into, you know, one of these large language models on the back end? So can you just give us a little bit, you know, of the look on the privacy side and, you know, why it's important with, with medical records and health information. Yeah. So, you know, the good thing for the U.S. consumer is that the government has strong protections for your data, and that comes in the form of HIPAA, which is a law that I think a lot of people have heard of nowadays. And so HIPAA has requirements. And one of the main things that I've run into in my work in trying to set up this

platform is to work with other people, you need to have what's called a business associates agreement, a BAA. And that is the other party agreeing that they're going to treat your data according to all of these regulations. And starting out with our platform, that was one of the challenges because there weren't many, if any, providers that would actually sign a BAA to use these large language models through their API. But the good news, for I think everybody is that increasingly the major cloud providers have their own APIs. And so nowadays, you could get a BAA to use Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini through Vertex AI. And I heard you mentioned, yeah, Gemini Studio still hasn't, which is tough because we can't

get the latest stuff that comes out there. But vertex AI, you can get a BAA as well as Azure OpenAI services. And even Open AI now will, has a process to get a BAA. So I think that's the good news for, I mean, both people building companies and for consumers is that, you know, the providers of these models are seeing that it's important to set up the security and privacy infrastructure to be able to make these guarantees so that companies in regulated industries like ours can actually work with them. And for our live stream audience, now's a great time. have a question for William, please get it in. So let's talk a little bit here about the opportunity, right? So, you know, obviously this depends, right? Because I know that there's some very forward facing, you know, healthcare organizations that are really, and have been for many, many decades,

right, been using traditional artificial intelligence. But, you know, when it comes to this generative AI wave, large language models, William, where would you say is the biggest opportunity for health care organizations. Yeah. I mean, I'll pick the biggest. I think there's a couple, but I think one that I'm cognizant of is like the physician burnout crisis. And this is something that we're doing a lot of work on and included health to try to reduce the administrative burden of being a doctor. Because people, people didn't become a doctor to fill out a chart like on an EHR. And it's kind of a difficult task. So I think that's one of the biggest opportunities is, you know, we have a shortage of physicians in the country. And if we could free up more of their time to be able to

actually work with patients, which is what they got into this to do, I think that's probably the biggest opportunity with the tech that we have now is to say, like, the doctor can be face-to-face working with you instead of behind a screen. Yeah. And it's, it's, it's, I find it still, like, extremely frustrating for me personally, right? Like if I'm going to see a doctor, first of all, it takes forever, right? But then, you know, the doctor's there sitting and, you know, oh, doctor's running 45 minutes behind and, you know, come in and ask you questions. And, you know, the doctor's over there just pounding on his keyboard, but very slowly. And I'm like, yeah, why can't we use some of this like, you know, voice dictation, right?

So, you know, what are, can you help us all understand, you know, so these healthcare organizations that maybe aren't, you know, really yet using AI. Like, why? Do you know? Like, I know that's a huge question, but like, why? Yeah. I think one thing I can say from the work me and my team has been doing is integration is very challenging in healthcare. So like, I could build a demo using the open AI API and the tools that I have. But then, you know, we have several different software systems to then integrate with, right? So for us, like we use Salesforce Health Cloud. And then we also have our own internal like software services. And maybe we have like Athena. And so how to get that all to work together. I mean, that's not necessarily even an AI problem. That's just an engineering problem.

But I think that's part of the challenge is modern healthcare. You have so many different software services that you use and the doctors run into this just as much as like software engineers. I think that's part of the challenge is how do we get all these systems to talk to each other? You know, you can't do anything useful with the data if you don't have all the data together and available. What are, you know, what are some of the challenges of that exact same thing, right? Like being able to grab data from different systems that are maybe, right? And I could be wrong here, but I feel what a lot of, you know, healthcare organizations are using somewhat antiquated. you know, systems, you know, what, what are some of the challenges of making, of being able to

grab all that data, you know, having the data be able to talk with each other and then using it actually, you know, for a large language model? Yeah, I think part of it is output formats. So the industry has a standard called fire, but, and it's, it's starting to be more adopted, but it's still not like super, you know, you're not going to get everything in fire format from all of your services. And yeah, I think then it's just like, I guess one other challenge is how they represent a patient or a person, right? So how do you connect the different identifiers used in different systems? That's a challenge we run into it, included health as well, is like, if I know that you or Jordan Wilson in my, say, EHR, and I know you're Jordan Wilson.

in my proprietary app, how do I connect those Jordan Wilson's to make sure that I have all of that together? No. Yeah. So many challenges, right? And I guess another, you know, upcoming potential challenge, right? Read these stories all the time about, you know, potential shortages, right? Someone in our live stream here was saying this, Kofi, saying, you know, shortage of positions,

aging population that's living. longer, right, you know, nursing shortages. We've been reading about these since COVID. What are, like, how realistic are these shortages and if they are true, right, like all these studies, you know, that are saying, you know, pay by this year, you know, we're going to be this many nurses short, this many doctors short. How real are those? And are they a huge concern for the health care system here in the U.S.? Yeah, the physician shortage problem is real. and we definitely should be concerned about it. I think both on an overall level,

and then one thing we see it included in health is also what you would call like health deserts. So even within the U.S., there's geographic locations that don't have as good access to high-quality physicians. And so I think there's a number of ways you can address that. We partly try to do that through telemedicine. So that helps because, you know,

you don't have to drive two hours to see the nearest doctor. But I do think AI has a role to play moving forward. I think some things there are, or at least one thing would be like virtual triage, right? So if you could describe your symptoms to an intelligent bot and then it could tell you like, just like, is this actually really, should you go to the ER or not, right? Or like, is this really urgent matter? I think some of that is in the works in the industry. I'm sure people are already working on that. But I think that could really help because you know, you want the doctors for be working on the difficult cases and maybe some of the

other ones can be, you know, the bot tells you to go get some Tylenol because it's not a, it's not a huge deal. I think that's probably something that's coming in the future. Yeah. And I mean, what's coming in the future, I think for me personally, it's inevitable, right? Like, I think, you know, AI and using large language models for daily healthcare, it's inevitable, right? So between the nursing, doctor shortage we just talked about, but some recent studies. So we shared this in our newsletter, but there was a recent study published in JAMA. I think that's what it's called, right? So it showed, and this was an actual test, there was researchers from Stanford and other

universities. And it showed that doctors, essentially there was doctors that went, you know, 50 doctors tested on six challenging medical cases. So doctors scored an average score of 76 percent if they used to. chat GPD. If they did not, they scored 74, right? So using chat GPT provided a slight bump for doctors going from a 74% to a 76%. But then chat GPT without the doctors scored a 90% accuracy rate, right? So there's all this information out there. You know, everyone's like, oh, I could never talk to a, you know, an AI, like, I need a doctor. Like, William, how can we as humans that have

always sought care from a human doctor? How can we? we begin to accept maybe this reality that, okay, maybe these large language models might be better suited to make some of these decisions. Is that crazy to think? Adobe just introduced an entirely new way to create, bringing the power and precision of its creative suite into one conversational experience. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, now live in the Adobe Firefly app, the all-in-one creative AI studio.

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But to me, it's getting used to like a, different way of looking at it psychologically where, you know, part of what a doctor provides is warmth. Part of what a doctor provides is when they tell you some bad news, they can give that to you in a way that makes you maybe feel not so bad. And I think in the immediate future, say, the next couple years, it's probably going to be some kind of hybrid system, right? Like the AI can be really good at diagnosis, maybe, but you still maybe want a human to interpret that and deliver you the results. I mean, AI has voice now, so maybe they could also tell you and there's developments there. But I think at least in the short term, in terms of the next couple years, like,

people are not going to be necessarily uncomfortable with like total AI driven medicine. I think actually a good analogy is to self-driving, right? Like, it could be that self-driving cars don't crash as much. I think there's data that shows that they're doing a pretty good job with safety, but sometimes it's still uncomfortable to get in a car with no driver. And I think it's a similar thing in medicine

if you're talking about AI for diagnosis. It's like maybe in this case, like the model diagnosis 90% and the doctors only get 76%. But you don't necessarily want to get into that car right now. And I think it's like, good point. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, it's like, oh, I'm curious by the self-driving cars or the Waymo's, but yeah, do I really want to get in there yet?

I don't know, right? Part of it's like curiosity, but then part of it's like, yeah, it's probably I would feel personally safer driving, driving the actual car, right? So, William, earlier you mentioned, you know, obviously some high-level use cases of generative AI, right? And the opportunities, you know, relieving administrative tasks, right? Helping address, you know, a potential upcoming shortfall of doctors and nurses, et cetera. right? But, you know, as our AI systems become more and more advanced, right, and less and less

technical, right, the ability for live video, live video that can infer in motion, you know, live video that can see and we can interact with. What are maybe some of the next, I guess, aspects of health care that we should look at? Because, you know, like I said, you know, transcribing and dictation and note taking and organization, all the administrative stuff, it's like, okay, yes, but maybe where should we be looking next? Or where are you excited as someone working in this field looking at? Yeah, I think that I call it a couple things. I think you mentioned kind multimodal models and I think that's like an area that is going to expand. So they're getting much better at doing things like reading x-rays and other things, maybe even video. Like you can imagine

like a video like physical therapists like you you walk and it starts to tell you how you could change your gate or to recover from some injury. I mean, that's exciting stuff. I think the other thing which you touched on a little bit earlier is just increasing use with your personal data, right? So it's like, I mean, I wear a Fitbit. I gather data on myself and I kind of want to get some insights to that data. And right now I can see graphs, right? But it doesn't necessarily capture it. So, you know, what if I could take my Fitbit data and, like, blood testing data and get the AI to interpret that and explain it to me in, like, layman's terms? I think that that's another area you're going to start to see is people using AI. And, and again, like, you want to be careful

with this, but I think you'll start to see people using AI to, you know, get these answers from data that they're collecting on themselves, because people are now. naturally curious. It's a hot topic, right? And there's been a lot of kind of posts online that have gone viral in the last couple of weeks, you know, people literally doing just that, right? Collecting all their, all their health care records, you know, dumping it into, you know, chat GPT or Claude or Gemini as these, you know, computer vision models get, get better and more

accurate. And they're essentially just trying to figure out longstanding medical problems that they haven't able to get answers to. And a lot of cases, it's working. What are the dangers, right, in that, right? Or, you know, kind of like what you said, these wearable devices are collecting more and more information, right? Should we be exporting all the information from our smart devices and our results that we get online and, you know, using AI to try to figure out, you know, things that have been nagging us from a healthcare perspective? Is that good or bad? I think, yeah, I think the dangers of kind of do it yourself. And I will say, like, I've totally done this. I've gone to chap GPT put in symptoms

or put in the results from a test. And I mean, like, what does this mean? But I think the dangers are like, it's not really validated to do that, right? Like, it can do that. It even can do that well. But you're really going in, don't know, like, how well, because that's not really something that it gets benchmarked on. And I think that's an opportunity for healthcare companies, even like ours, where we can say, okay, we are using, say, the same models, but we've actually done the work to validate, like, okay, if we ask it health questions, is it going to give you, like, answers that makes sense? And so I think that that's where there's the opportunity to say,

and also on the privacy respect to say, like, okay, well, like, we're subject to HIPAA. If you send us, like, all your data, it's not going to get used in some nefarious way. So those are the, I guess, the risks of like just using it from a consumer app is like, you don't know what you're going to get. I've gotten good things. I've also gotten things that I needed to kind of take a second look at. So I would definitely caution people. It can be useful. But I think that there's going to be an increasing space for, I mean, like I said, like WebMD plus LLMs, right?

like it has it been somewhat validated by clinicians and and people who went through and said, okay, like can we be more sure that this is doing the right thing versus like a vanilla chat CBT? Great, great comment here from Samuel that I want to get your take on, William. So he's saying, I think patients will have justified concerns with the privacy of their conversations with their doctors if an AI is listening in. Right. Yeah, that's that's the big, right?

one of the biggest holdups because this technology that simply just uses AI and transcribes conversations. I think I had the president of the American Medical Association on just under a year ago. And I think the stat at the time was like only 30% of their members were even using this information. So as someone, William, that's building, you know, AI technology and health care on the technical side, how can these things be addressed, right? some of these seemingly, you know, simple or simpler, you know, integrations of large language models into health care. How can these things be addressed? Yeah, I think the first thing is definitely like putting the power in the patient's hands and getting explicit consent for some of these things, right? So if we're going to record your conversation, we want to tell you that and make sure that you are agreeing to that.

I think that's a very important part, giving you the opportunity to opt out. And then part of it, I think, is just building trust with your users, right? So if you're a healthcare technology company, you're getting a lot of sensitive data about your users. Like, if you weren't, then you wouldn't really be able to do anything useful. So part of it is just showing the user that you can be trusted. And I think the other part is showing them that what they're giving you can be used to their benefit, right? So, like, nobody wants to give you a bunch of data if, you're not going to do something for them.

But if you can, you know, do something beneficial, then maybe they have a willingness to say, okay, I'll send you this test because I know when you send me back the explanation, like I get a benefit from that. And so I'm kind of, everyone is making this tradeoff of how much data do I share for what I'm getting back. And I think the hope for healthcare companies is that we can give people back enough that they're willing to trust us with some of this information. in order to like do the job.

So I know included health, one of the things you all do is, you know, personalized virtual care. Is there, is there an opportunity in the future for, you know, a different kind of health care system, at least in the U.S. where,

you know, I would love this, right? Where it's like, I don't care about my privacy. Yes, blank health care, whatever. Take everything.

Take it all. I just want to be able to, you know, as an example, talk with an AI all the time or talk with a doctor who's using AI and can get me questions or get me answers so much quicker. Is this something where we might just see a complete change in how health care works in the future? I think so. I think and I think this is a combination of AI plus some of these other trends we've mentioned in terms of like personal data gathering.

But I do think that's something that's coming where, you know, even with virtual primary, care, we're realizing, like, primary care isn't just coming into the office once a year and maybe doing some tests, right? Like, that isn't really sufficient in a lot of cases, even for a healthy person. And so, you know, can we have you wearing a wearable to track some of these things? You know, CGMs are available. There's startups that will send you that to track your blood sugar. And, you know, consumer blood testing is on the rise. So I think that I think it's coming where there's a healthcare company that can actually integrate both traditional medical data versus this data that people are starting to collect on their own because I think there's a big trend there. I'm one of these people.

I mean, I love to collect data about myself and my health. So yeah, and then just having that all in one place and saying I can talk to an AI about it that has been validated by clinicians to be. giving me like useful and good answers and and that I can escalate to a doctor if I need be like I think something like that is coming in the future if it's not already here. All right, William, so we've covered a ton in today's conversation bouncing all over the place. It's about a fun one for me, but you know, as we wrap up, what's the one most important thing that you think our audience should know when they're thinking about the role of AI in modern healthcare? Yeah, I think the main thing I would say to people is that it's not something to be afraid of.

I mean, it's totally valid to be afraid of it. I think there's a lot of reasons to, but I think ultimately we want to use AI to give more power to the patient. And that's kind of my mission. And I think that's something that hopefully we'll see in the years to come. But yeah, it can be a very scary tool. it can also be a tool that gives you abilities that you didn't have before. And I think that's really the optimistic side of the view of AI and healthcare. Power to the patient.

We can all get on board with that, right? Yeah, no one, no one's going to argue with that. All right. This was a great one. William, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. All right.

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