Becker's Healthcare January 30, 2025
Medical knowledge doubles about every 73 days, according to research, but it can take an average of 17 years for new discoveries to become standard practice. This is part of the reason why Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care adopted a ChatGPT-style tool to make it easier to search medical literature.
It started in 2016 when Robert Flora, MD, joined McLaren.
“One of the challenges I noticed early on was the disparity in access to knowledge across our hospitals,” Dr. Flora, who currently serves as McLaren’s chief academic officer and vice president of academic affairs, told Becker’s. “Some facilities had libraries while others didn’t. I’d get calls from hospitals asking if I could help them find a particular article, and...
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