Bright key facts / Demonstrated
A second opinion tested across three health systems.
A 249-physician study in Kenya, Indonesia, and the Netherlands tested GPT-4o assistance on clinical vignettes and reported higher guideline-based scores in each setting.
- AI’s role
- GPT-4o supplied information and reasoning support while physicians retained the task and answer.
- Documented result
- Among 249 physicians, guideline scores increased by 18 percentage points in Kenya, 10.7 in Indonesia, and 7.2 in the Netherlands. These were vignette scores, not patient outcomes.
- Important limitation
- The tasks were clinical vignettes, not live care.