Generative AI And Digital Health–What Does The Future Hold?

Artificial intelligence and healthcare are hardly strangers, as machine learning programs have been aiding in the diagnosis of disease, drug discovery, the streamlining of clinical workflows and the analysis of medical data for decades. But their relationship may rapidly accelerate and deepen significantly with the rollout of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT4.

Being hailed as a revolution on par with the invention of the computer or internet for their potential to innovate as well as disrupt, LLMs are estimated to be a $6 trillion opportunity, offering massive productivity gains to virtually every industry. Digital health is no exception, and tech leaders and startups alike have begun leveraging LLMs—or building their own—to bring digital health and AI together in ways that were unthought of just a few years, or even months, ago.