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ChatGPT in medicine: risks, benefits, and safer documentation strategies

21 October 2025 18:57 Kevin Pho, MD

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Family nurse practitioner Erica Dorn discusses her article "ChatGPT in health care: Risks, benefits, and safer options." In this episode, Erica explains how clinicians are experimenting with ChatGPT to help with HPI prompts, procedure documentation, and discharge instructions, while also cautioning against its risks such as inaccuracy, lack of HIPAA compliance, and limited integration with EHRs. She highlights the advantages of AI medical scribes, which provide secure, real-time, and health care-specific documentation solutions. Erica emphasizes practical takeaways for providers: use ChatGPT carefully for brainstorming, but adopt specialized AI tools for safer, more efficient, and compliant documentation.

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