# Condition prompts can track research while care sheets centralize records

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/s/condition-prompts-can-track-research-while-care-sheets/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

- 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: 22:20 to 25:36 of the episode (3 min), playing on https://realalpha.app/s/condition-prompts-can-track-research-while-care-sheets/; the episode from there: https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1340

## Quote

> “I want you to **always alert me** when a new study or a new breakthrough”
> — [Ashley Alexander](https://realalpha.app/people/ashley-alexander/) at [23:21](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1401) · Behind the Craft

## Takeaways

1. Tell ChatGPT which condition and updates matter to you.
2. Ask it to alert you when new studies or findings appear.
3. Keep medications, labs, appointment notes, and contacts together.

## About this segment

Ashley Alexander suggests asking ChatGPT to flag new studies on a condition, while Peter describes maintaining a one-page care sheet. Both workflows keep important updates and records easier to find.

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.

[22:24](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1344) And what if I want to like, you know, research clinical trials or like getting to someone more like, you know, people with long term illnesses, like, is there plans for that? Or like, you know, like how do you best use CHAS-GPT to find that stuff? Yes, yes. There's so much potential for where this can go. I would say today where the product is at, the best thing I think would be to make sure that chat understands that that is something that is important to you, which is literally just as simple as telling chat that I have this condition.

[22:51](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1371) This is something where I want to always know the latest. I would even like set up an automation. I think we'll get to a point where chat will infer and just know these things for you. But to date, we still have a lot more that we can do in terms of what the models are capable in terms of proactively telling you things. then it won't all just happen right now, even though, you know, we'll get there.

[23:11](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1391) So for now, I think one of the best ways would be to maybe set up some sort of automation, like say to chat, I want you to always be looking for the, I don't know, say you have POTS or something like that, some sort of chronic illness or EDS, you can say I have this condition, I want you to always alert me when a new study or a new breakthrough or some new finding or some new news comes out about this condition, that it can do very well today.

[23:35](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1415) yeah there's these websites right clinicaltrial.gov or something like these websites you can just search for stuff and get chat to do it yes yeah chat yeah chat can um can do pretty extensive web search at this point yeah yeah i i think uh as caregivers like just going back to that i think um i i actually built this open source skill called like f cancer i don't want to say the word but yeah cancer uh-huh and all it does is like it just maintains like a one pager on like like my mom's is.

[24:00](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1440) like treatment and like it has all the phone numbers at the top so you can call them whenever you want. That's wonderful. Yeah and just keeps it updated and like you said it keeps it updated like in a google doc or a site or uh right now it's a google doc i could use the site too but um but yeah like it kind of looks through all the emails and like you know uh like the notes from the phone calls and stuff and just keeps everything up to date. That's awesome. Yeah because I always like just so much shit going around like it's hard to keep track. It's hard to keep track.

[24:24](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1464) Yeah you know some you're reminding me of a story i just heard of someone who who's battling a chronic illness actually and what she did is she created a site where she has her her data populating there and she's given instructions for I think she she wanted particularly her latest medications to always be at the top and then her latest lab results next and then I think after that was like latest appointment notes or something like that okay and she this is a site that she's given access to just sort of her like her closest loved ones to kind of her care team nice nice and it's a helpful thing because when when you're going from doctor to doctor this, you know, a lot of the time they don't have full visibility into another system record.

[25:02](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1502) Sometimes it takes a lot of faxes and it doesn't always happen. And so what she's found is actually it's really helpful when she establishes care with a new provider or even if she's just like ping-ponging between a couple of different systems to just show them this. Because when they're prescribing medications, a lot of time that's how they catch contraindications. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Because doctors can't hold all the information they have for like 20 different patients. Of course. They need to help too.

[25:24](https://realalpha.app/v/pR7NCYKsA3o/?t=1524) It would be incredible. It would be insane to expect that they would. And even if they could, a lot of time, again, they don't even have visibility into the full longitudinal record, cross-system record.