Bringing generative AI to the doctor’s clinic is not just a matter of plugging in technology but a way to save time for everyone. 

Kiran Mysore, chief data and analytics officer at Sutter Health, and Google Cloud Director for global healthcare Aashima Gupta said during a panel at VentureBeat’s Transform in July that generative AI has helped reduce many administrative tasks involved in clinical visits.

“These are very early days productivity use cases; what we’re solving for is ‘pajama time,’ the idea that for every hour a physician spends on the patient, they spend two hours searching for information and piecing together things,” Gupta said. 

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The healthcare space is no stranger to technological advancements. Mysore said systems like Epic, a platform where patients can enter their health information and medical providers can send messages, helped accelerate digitization. Once Covid hit, more people expected to get more information about their health, so the industry had to respond quickly. 

There are many use cases for gen AI in healthcare, from improving workflow to scanning and analyzing medical imaging. Many big organizations in the space, like Kaiser Permanente, have implemented AI in their work, including using predictive analytics to ...