We’ve seen a lot of trends. The PC, the internet, mobile, the cloud, SaaS, … The current hype is AI and if you would’ve missed it: AI agents.

It’s ironic, because while major investors are running away from the hyped AI boom, there’s a new huge promise in town. Imagine having virtual assistants that not only read text/pictures and summarize/predict text. No, they actually decide and do things on their own.

WHAT?! Surely, we will never do this in Health Care where lives are at stake?

Well you can make up your mind on this yourself. This is a paradigm shift like drive-by-wire. Surely we don’t want the gas pedal or steering column of our car driving our car only by sensors and electrical wires and electrical mini-motors? What if there are bugs in the sensor, the software, …? Purists and doomsday prophets have long advocated against. Now, chances are very likely your car no longer has a mechanical connection between the pedal and the motor.

We will use AI Agents tomorrow like we use a cell phone today. Plenty of concerns left, but none that are linked to twisting the dial of a fixed phone to get the right number dialed. If you were born in the seventies or earlier, you get the picture.

So what are AI agents and what could they be in HealthCare? Plenty of startups are focusing on mature tech, at least in English: speech to text. In laymans’ words: it writes what you’re saying, or someone else for that matter. This is not an Agent persé.

But what if it would take notes and then structure it in a “SOEP” (Subjective, Objective, Evaluation & Plan) report? Instead of listening to the patient, remembering and noting the symptoms down… You get to actually focus on the patient. Then reviewing the report and approving. Squire and others are working on this already.

HealthCare specialist and patient 1st

Would you use it? Love to hear it from you. Obviously, we need to remain vigilant for tech going rogue in HealthCare. We’re not talking about cars and drones, but human beings at peril.

Therefore, we believe the HealthCare specialist and patient are best placed to make a decision on this. Tech in our space will move slow, we have time to adapt. However, the ones taking the first steps will gain major benefits over their peers. Remember life without a car, cellphone, email, …?

Reach out to us if you want to discuss where you could use AI Agents today.