Writing
The Center of Patient Innovation publishes evidence-informed writing about the intersection of patient experience, healthcare innovation and artificial intelligence.
The focus is not technology alone. Each article asks what an innovation means for patients, how it may affect the experience of receiving care and what safeguards may be needed.
Areas We Cover
Patient Rights and Healthcare AI
Artificial intelligence can influence diagnoses, treatment recommendations, clinical priorities and access to care. Patients need understandable information about when these systems are being used, how they affect decisions and who remains accountable.
Start with: Creating a Patients’ AI Bill of Rights
Patients Using AI
Patients increasingly use ChatGPT and other AI tools to research symptoms, interpret medical information and prepare for appointments. This creates new opportunities for patient engagement, but it also introduces questions about accuracy, privacy and trust.
Read: Talking to Your Doctor About AI
Patient-Generated Data and Personal Health Tools
Wearables, connected devices and personal algorithms allow patients to collect and interpret more health information than ever before. Our writing examines how that information can be used responsibly and incorporated into clinical conversations.
Read: Bring Your Own Algorithm: Patients as Architects of Their Own Care
Privacy, Trust and Accountability
Patients regularly share deeply personal information with digital systems without fully understanding how their information may be stored, analyzed or reused.
Read: The Confession Booth Has No Walls
Emerging Models of Care
Some healthcare AI applications remain experimental. We examine their potential while distinguishing promising research from technologies that have been clinically validated and implemented.
Topics include long-term disease prediction, early dementia detection, digital intake, patient-generated algorithms and new approaches to clinical communication.
How We Approach the Writing
Articles are written for patients, clinicians, healthcare leaders and others who want to understand how innovation affects the experience of care.
Whenever possible, articles:
- Use plain language.
- Link to primary research and authoritative sources.
- Distinguish current capabilities from proposed applications.
- Consider both potential benefits and possible harms.
- Identify questions patients and healthcare organizations should ask.
- Connect technological decisions to trust, communication and patient agency.
The Center does not provide medical advice or promote individual healthcare products. Its purpose is to make patient-centered healthcare innovation easier to understand, discuss and evaluate.