Digital Health January 26, 2026
GenAI tools for health are set to influence not only patient knowledge but also clinician behaviour, writes Pritesh Mistry, fellow in digital technologies at The King’s Fund
There’s no doubt AI is going to impact healthcare; we are already seeing the beginnings of this with AI scribes reducing time amount of time clinicians spend on admin, dermatology tools that speed up diagnosis as well as many other application areas.
However, the impact of AI is not going to be simply down to how healthcare systems like the NHS choose to implement them. There are AI technologies that are being made available directly to the public.
For example, the recent announcements of GenAI tools for health applications such as ChatGPT and...







