ChatGPT in Healthcare

Renee LIN
ILLUMINATION
Published in
10 min readApr 9, 2023

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As I mentioned in my last post, everyone should learn to interact with AI tools like ChatGPT to maximize the benefits. Since I experienced a long diagnosis process from a GP(1 year) for simple acid reflux diagnosis, plus six months of waiting for a specialist in a public hospital, and I am still on the waiting list for a Gastroscopy test (another six months passed, and I booked an appointment with a private hospital last week), I wonder how ChatGPT can help with the interactions between patients and doctors. So I did some research on this topic, and here is what I found.

1. Information from posts/videos focusing on ChatGPT in healthcare

2. Papers and ongoing research in this area

3. Prompts we can use to educate ourselves on the sickness

4. An example of how I use it to study my illness, using ChatGPT 3.5(free)

1. Information from posts/videos focusing on ChatGPT in healthcare

When searching for “prompt engineering”, there are resources on it. But dip down to healthcare, the resources are pretty limited. I only found a 100% matched video[1] on Youtube and a post [2]writing about it. Then it is treated as a small subset of prompt engineering, listing four prompts to use as templates asking GPT to act as a dentist, Psychologist and…

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Renee LIN
ILLUMINATION

Passionate about web dev and data analysis. Huge FFXIV fan. Interested in healthcare data now.