As co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, Munjal Shah is developing artificial intelligence that he believes could fundamentally reshape how medical care is delivered. His company’s generative AI large language models, purpose-built for healthcare, aim to take on countless routine tasks. Those tasks are currently performed by healthcare providers, everything from preoperative instructions to chronic disease management check-ins.
“What if instead of doing a co-pilot model, we do autopilot?” Shah posits, contrasting his vision with AI tools designed merely to assist human clinicians. “What if we build fully automated AIs that call people on the phone and talk to them? Imagine an AI that can do nondiagnostic, low-risk tasks like preoperative calls and medication reminders?”