# Clinician AI use is rising, but record access depends on health systems

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- Speaker: [Ashley Alexander](https://realalpha.app/people/ashley-alexander/) · Ashley Alexander is VP of Product at OpenAI leading health.
- Host: [Peter Yang](https://realalpha.app/people/peter-yang/) · Host, Behind the Craft · Led product at Roblox, Reddit, Twitch and Meta for 10+ years.
- Show: Behind the Craft
- Episode: [OpenAI VP: How AI Changed My Family’s Fight Against Cancer | Ashley Alexander](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/), Nov 8, 2026
- Moment: 29:52 to 32:00 of the episode (2 min), playing on https://realalpha.app/s/clinician-ai-use-is-rising-but-record-access-depends-on/; the episode from there: https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1792

## Quote

> “And the latest AMA study, I think, showed something like **over 70% of clinicians** are using AI regularly now.”
> — [Ashley Alexander](https://realalpha.app/people/ashley-alexander/) at [29:52](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1792) · Behind the Craft

## Takeaways

1. Ashley cites clinician AI use rising from about 30% in 2023 to over 70%.
2. Free clinician access can support anonymized questions without EHR data.
3. Patient-record integration requires health-system agreements and workflows.

## About this segment

Ashley Alexander cites regular clinician AI use rising from around 30% in 2023 to over 70%. Free access doesn’t automatically include patient records; that requires health-system integration and agreements.

From “OpenAI VP: How AI Changed My Family’s Fight Against Cancer | Ashley Alexander”, Nov 8, 2026. [Watch the full episode](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/)

## Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

[29:56](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1796) And the latest AMA study, I think, showed something like over 70% of clinicians are using AI regularly now. And that was up from, I don't know, it was something in the 30s or 30% or so back in 2023. So it's growing quickly. It's happening. And I think faster than what everyone tells me. I've only been in healthcare now for a little over a year. But for people who've been in it for decades, they're telling me that this is unlike a pace that they've seen before.

[30:20](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1820) Because there's just so much to fix. And this technology is actually able to make a difference right now. And it's not just like if I'm a doctor, I want to adopt this stuff, I can just start using it. It's just like trying to get enterprise adoption of AI. You have to go through a lot of different other parties, right? So there's a couple of different paths, which is exciting. So we have a product called ChatGPT for clinicians, which is free for any clinician.

[30:42](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1842) They just have to verify that they're clinicians. So they use their MPI and ID, and then they get free access to our latest models. Like they get Astra for free. That's something that we just feel from a mission perspective is very important. It's a no-brainer for us to comp that for the physicians. So they can do that. Now, for many of them, they might not be authorized to sign a BAA on half of their organization.

[31:03](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1863) That's a bunch of industry lingo, which basically means that in order for us to be able to support their HIPAA compliance, they have to sign this document with us with sort of a legal agreement. So a lot of those individuals won't be able to, for example, sync up all their patient EHR records. is kind of the implication of that and so it's still a very powerful tool um it can they can ask questions in a very anonymized way you know i have a 73 year old patient that presents with xyz symptoms i'm thinking about blah blah blah as the causes like give me a sense of what your differential would be and it just helps them as a almost a thought partner um but it gets even more powerful when it is able to integrate with the the electronic medical record information and be in workflow. And so that's why we're also working with health systems directly to then actually

[31:55](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1915) integrate in a HIPAA compliant way with their systems.