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by zekenie 495 days ago
RAG + analysis on health data has huge potential. We need to tread carefully, obviously, but I have also used these models + RAG on personal health data at times when the docs were scratching my head. It was very helpful, although I approached it a bit differently. In my case it was my infant in the hospital for breathing / eating issues. I took data from the network tab in mychart and added context additional context, then asked Claude questions. My main goal was to be prepared for rounds in the morning. I wanted to understand what types of information each test was going to give me.

It was pretty good! Unsurprisingly, it did hallucinate sometimes or miss some nuance. But, I knew I was talking to something that did that. It was helpful for me, even with errors. I didn't, however try to just say "hey given all this what's going on with my baby"

On another topic:

If I were you, I'd make this thing speak FHIR or some other common format. That'd make using this thing in an ecosystem of other tools a lot easier. There are even FHIR graphql apis you could just polp on top maybe.