Routine clinical tasks such as documentation and medical research consume valuable time that clinicians could be devoting to patient care.
"The U.S. health care system today is under extraordinary strain," according to an OpenAI news release. "Clinicians are being asked to care for more patients while managing growing administrative demands and a rapidly expanding body of medical research. Many are already turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for support."
This week, the company announced the availability of ChatGPT for Clinicians, an artificial intelligence tool designed to support clinical tasks. It will be available free to any verified physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant or pharmacist in the United States.
Physician use of AI has reached an all-time high, according to a recent American Medical Association survey. More than 7 in 10 physicians now report using AI in clinical practice, up from 48% last year. Clinician use of ChatGPT for care consulting; writing and documentation; and medical research has more than doubled over the past year.
"As demand for AI in clinical settings grows, so does the responsibility to continuously improve our model's performance and safety on clinical use cases and offer solutions that can safely and effectively support health care workflow," the company said.
The launch of ChatGPT is the latest example of OpenAI expanding its commitment to health care.
"This version of ChatGPT is as close to an ideal clinical support partner as it gets," the company wrote in a blog. "It's like an on-demand consultant. It can engage on everything from current guidelines to billing and coding, with the added benefit of broad access to pediatric and pediatric subspecialty literature."
Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Healthcare, which enables organizations to provide clinicians, administrators and researchers with the compliance and controls they need at scale. Clinicians across leading U.S. health systems now are using it to move faster through administrative work. Early adopters include Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stanford Medicine Children's Health, AdventHealth, HCA Healthcare, Baylor Scott & White Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
The company also is introducing HealthBench Professional, which is designed to measure the performance and safety of large language models in health care. The new benchmarking tool uses "physician-authored conversations and rubrics, multistage physician adjudication and careful data filtering to measure performance and safety in common clinician chats," according to OpenAI.
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