AI in Healthcare: Don’t Fall Behind
You’ve seen the headlines. AI is the technology that will define the century; but what does this mean for your healthcare practice?
For better or worse, AI isn’t going away. Like the dawn of the internet, the late adopters did so to their own detriment. And providers in 2025 can’t afford to fall behind on the critical innovations that will keep their practices up to date for themselves and their patients.
Learning how to harness it to the benefit of your patients and your workflows is going to be critical to adapting to an evolving healthcare space.
AI: Your Speedy Assistant
While some fear AI will replace human providers, the reality is the opposite. AI handles the tedious work that traditionally drains your time and resources, freeing you up to conduct the important work that only you can do. For example:
- Post-Care Instructions: After assessing your patients’ history, prescriptions and needs you can use AI to help you generate follow up care instructions for your patient. AI can also summarize patient visits, further reducing administrative burden.
- Predictive Analytics: AI can flag potential health risks based on a patient’s history, helping you to act proactively rather than reactively.
- 24/7 Patient Support: You can use AI inside of HIPAA complaint systems to elaborate and provide immediate answers to common health questions, reinforcing your recommendations.
Ultimately, AI can empower you to work smarter and engage more meaningfully with your patients.
Let’s Face It: We’re All Pressed for Time.
Providers everywhere pressed for time. A typical appointment lasts 15 minutes or less (1), often leaving little room for detailed patient education. This gap in communication can lead to poor adherence to treatment plans and preventable health issues.
You have the patient education to provide, whether it’s what you convey verbally or you have literature that explains it, but getting through to your patient, can be difficult in these short windows.
Patients often forget on the ride home or zone out completely, because they’re overwhelmed.The better method is to connect with patients in between office visits by giving them small actionable steps every day. Automated patient education helps you do that.
Combining Automated Education with AI
Automated patient education is conducted by sending patients a care program relevant to them through a HIPAA compliant App.
Where does AI come in? AI can assist you with what to send to your patients. By providing it with small bits of information, AI can expand this into comprehensive, patient-friendly care plans.
The real magic happens when AI-driven insights are paired with an automated delivery system. Instead of handing patients a generic pamphlet or overwhelming them with medical jargon, providers can offer personalized digital care plans that guide patients step by step through their health journey.
For example, if a patient is diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, an AI-powered system can generate a structured, easy-to-follow plan that includes:
- Meal planning suggestions based on personal preferences
- Weekly progress check-ins and motivational nudges
- Recommended biometric check ins (blood sugar monitoring)
By using AI to automate education and follow-up, providers can improve compliance and outcomes—without adding more to your workload.
Instead of a rushed conversation about dietary changes or medication management, AI in combination with Automated Education can generate a full breakdown of recommendations, meal plans, medication reminders, and lifestyle adjustments tailored to your patient population. This allows you to focus on care while ensuring patients leave with actionable, easy-to-follow guidance.
BodySite: The Delivery Mechanism
The extrapolation of information that AI can provide is substantial, but without a delivery mechanism, your patients are not going to get this information. Sure, you could print it out for them. But that’s a lot of wasted paper and an accident waiting to happen (HIPAA violation, patient loses paperwork, etc.)
The most innovative and powerful solution is a practice management solution like BodySite. BodySite allows you to assign patients and automated patient education program — choose from a turnkey template, customize programs or use AI to make your own.
BodySite currently has AI capabilities inside of its platform and our technology is constantly evolving to add more areas where you can use AI natively to enhance your practice and your patients’ experience in a HIPAA compliant setting.
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