This article first appeared on Forbes.com In high school, I spent two summers programming computers for a manufacturing company in New York City. Monday through Thursday, I wrote code. On Fridays, a senior programmer from IBM would stop in to help me debug any...
Every day, millions of patients use generative AI tools to research symptoms, interpret diagnoses, understand lab results and navigate insurance questions. OpenAI reported in January that more than 40 million people ask ChatGPT health-related questions every day, and...
For as long as humans have dreamed, sleep has puzzled us. And even after nearly a century of research, it remains one of medicine’s great mysteries. Why would evolution favor a state in which humans spend a third of their lives motionless, unproductive and vulnerable?...
Yesterday, I stood on stage at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Boise, Idaho, presenting a keynote on the future of generative AI in medicine. As I looked out across the audience, I couldn’t help but think back to another moment that took place just a few hundred...
Around the world, governments and healthcare leaders are working to give more power to patients. In the United States, efforts are underway to improve transparency, remove data silos and allow patients to download their full medical history. In Switzerland, a growing...
I had the privilege of delivering the keynote address at the PCC Conference 2025 in Washington, D.C. The event, titled “Scaling What Works for Better Health,” brought together hundreds of leaders, clinicians and advocates committed to elevating primary care in the...
For decades, technologists and futurists debated whether computers would ever achieve human-level cognition. Today, that debate is over. The arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is no longer a question of if, but when. AGI is a fast-approaching milestone...
Around the world, nations differ in how they organize and pay for healthcare, but all face a common threat: the relentless rise of chronic disease. No matter the system, it’s becoming harder to keep people healthy while keeping costs under control. Increasingly, I’ve...
Will the U.S. healthcare system achieve a technological breakthrough, or will another promising tool die on the vine due to medicine’s illogical financial model? That was the question I set out to answer this morning from the main stage of the 10th annual Accountable...
A year ago, I published my latest book, ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine. Since then, I’ve witnessed a growing acceptance of generative AI among clinicians. An increasing number of doctors are now...