General-purpose LLMs have meaningful value in healthcare – they can support education, documentation and research – as well as lower barriers to knowledge and help improve communication. But acting as a clinical assistant embedded in care delivery requires more – it needs longitudinal EHR grounding, explicit encoding of clinical guidelines, transparent and traceable reasoning and the ability to operate securely at a population scale.

The post Prompting is Not Clinical Practice: The Limits Of General LLMs in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.