A new AP report highlights that nearly 1 in 4 Americans are now turning to AI tools for health advice, often before (or instead of) seeing a clinician. For many, it’s about speed, convenience, and accessibility in a system that can be hard to navigate.
As JCHI Executive Director Karandeep Singh, Chief Health AI Officer at UC San Diego Health, puts it: AI is becoming a more efficient “entry point” to health information, essentially an evolution of the Google searches patients have relied on for years, but with synthesized, conversational answers.
