Politico January 8, 2026
Doctors are burning out. Patients have trouble accessing care. Medical systems are becoming an increasingly byzantine maze.
The entire health care landscape — at least on the surface — looks ripe for an AI overhaul. It’s a complex, data-rich environment that involves a lot of pattern recognition and routine tasks, with a desperate need for the kind of user-friendly front-end experience AI can deliver.
Both patients and doctors are already diving in and using chatbots to get advice. OpenAI on Wednesday released its ChatGPT Health bot, and recently published a report claiming that more than 40 million people look to ChatGPT for health information daily. The AI health care company OpenEvidence, which operates a copilot system for medical practitioners, says...
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