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Editorial
. 2024 May 30;16(5):e61377.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.61377. eCollection 2024 May.

Transforming Virtual Healthcare: The Potentials of ChatGPT-4omni in Telemedicine

Mohamad-Hani Temsah  1 , Amr Jamal  2 , Khalid Alhasan  3 , Fadi Aljamaan  4 , Ibraheem Altamimi  5 , Khalid H Malki  6 , Abdulrahman Temsah  7 , Robin Ohannessian  8 , Ayman Al-Eyadhy  9   10
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Editorial

Transforming Virtual Healthcare: The Potentials of ChatGPT-4omni in Telemedicine

Mohamad-Hani Temsah et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

The introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT-4omni (GPT-4o) represents a potential advancement in virtual healthcare and telemedicine. GPT-4o excels in processing audio, visual, and textual data in real time, offering possible enhancements in understanding natural language in both English and non-English contexts. Furthermore, the new "Temporary Chat" feature may improve privacy and data confidentiality during interactions, potentially increasing integration with healthcare systems. These innovations promise to enhance communication clarity, facilitate the integration of medical images, and increase data privacy in online consultations. This editorial explores some future implications of these advancements for telemedicine, highlighting the necessity for further research on reliability and the integration of advanced language models with human expertise.

Keywords: ai in healthcare; chatgpt-4o; data privacy; digital health innovations; health information privacy; large language models (llm); natural language processing; patient communication; telemedicine; virtual healthcare.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Screenshot taken on May 16, 2024, from the desktop version of ChatGPT-4o in the “Temporary Chat” model.
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