ChatGPT promotes healthcare: current applications and potential challenges
Xuewei Wu, Bin Zhang
Abstract
The Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is a language model designed to engage with users in a conversational manner, resembling human communication.As a large language model (LLM), ChatGPT possesses extensive language understanding and generation capabilities.Through extensive pre-training and fine-tuning with vast amounts of internet text, the model can generate accurate and coherent responses across various domains and topics.Moreover, ChatGPT can handle diverse inputs and produce realistic human-like responses.To gain insights into the potential applications of ChatGPT, we conducted a literature search using the Web of Science up to 23 August 2023, yielding 1044 records related to ChatGPT.By performing keyword cluster analysis on keywords that appeared more than three times, we categorized the relevant themes into seven clusters (Fig. 1).The results highlight various applications of ChatGPT, such as scientific research, scientific writing, health care education, and medical consultation [1] .It accelerates scientific research and academic writing by efficiently accessing and summarizing medical literature.A recent study investigating the impact of ChatGPT on mid-level professional writing tasks has revealed significant achievements in terms of efficiency, quality, and satisfaction [2] .The integration of LLMs in medical education has the potential to revolutionize how students acquire knowledge about biomedical sciences.As a virtual tutor, ChatGPT provides students with immediate access to medical information and explanations.ChatGPT also holds great potential in automating the delivery of accurate healthcare information pertaining to disease prevention and screening.By integrating and analyzing diverse medical data, ChatGPT assists healthcare professionals in