“In a move that’s been a long time coming, UpToDate, the medical profession’s trusted companion for decades, has finally hopped on the AI bandwagon. Last week, they announced a generative artificial intelligence update, and doctors across the globe responded with a collective, ‘About time!’
Over the past couple of years, doctors have been quick to embrace chatbot-like tools powered by large language models. These tools provide instant, well-researched answers to medical queries, promising to make physicians faster and smarter in their daily patient care decisions. Startups like OpenEvidence and Pathway, now acquired by Doximity, have already snagged hundreds of thousands of physician users.
So, it’s no surprise that clinicians have been wondering when UpToDate, the old guard that stood to lose the most to these shiny new AI tools, would catch up. After all, it’s the ‘obvious thing to do,’ as Jonathan Chen, a hospitalist and health care AI researcher at Stanford University, puts it. But the question remains: Is UpToDate’s AI update too little, too late?
Stay tuned to STAT+ to find out more!”
