AI for General Practitioners: 5 Practical Use Cases
"We need to do something with AI." It's a phrase you may have heard at conferences, during a meeting with the practice manager, or by the coffee machine. But what exactly you can use it for often remains unclear, and yet healthcare is an inherently concrete field: real people, real diagnoses, real consequences. That's why in this article we share five examples of how AI can make a primary care physician's workday better.
Five real-world AI use cases for primary care physicians
A patient summary before your patient walks in
Imagine seeing a concise overview of each patient in your waiting room right in your EHR. This short, automatically generated summary is based on the reason for the visit and all available information already in the chart. Before you open the door, you know what to expect. No more scrolling through years of records (while the patient watches you).
Looking up everything about a patient
Want to quickly and easily find information in a patient's chart? Just ask a question in a chat interface integrated in your EHR. For example: "What medication was tried for her migraines in 2021?" After searching all available information, you get a direct, well-supported answer, with references to the exact entries in your system.
Quickly consulting clinical guidelines
Primary care physicians are generalists. That's a strength, but it's impossible to have every specialist guideline memorized. With AI, you can pull up relevant clinical guidelines within seconds, for example through an additional tab in your EHR.
Letter summaries so you instantly know what matters
The average primary care physician processes dozens of letters a day: discharge summaries, specialist referral letters, lab results, and patient requests. Most only need a quick scan; a few are urgent. AI can help you work through them more efficiently by generating a summary for each letter, so you can see at a glance what needs immediate attention, what can wait, and what requires a routine response.
Answering e-consults without starting from scratch every time
E-consults are a blessing and a burden. They reduce phone volume, but the written responses take time, and need to be accurate, empathetic, and clinically sound. AI can help you draft responses by summarizing the relevant patient context and suggesting structured replies.
Delphyr & Bricks: AI already in use at primary care practices
The examples above are already a reality for primary care practices working with Bricks. Through the integration between Delphyr and Bricks, physicians have access to AI-powered search, visit preparation, and letter scanning, directly within their existing EHR. No separate platform, no complex implementation process: just practical AI support, built into the workflow they already use every day.
Secure, integrated, and reliable AI
There's no shortage of AI tools for healthcare. What's rare is AI that truly fits the way a primary care practice operates, without requiring your team to learn a new system, without putting patient data at risk, and without dependence on the terms of service of an American tech company. Delphyr is:
Seamlessly integrated: Delphyr works inside your existing EHR, not alongside it. There's no new platform to log into, no parallel system to maintain, and no copy-pasting required. Your team won't experience Delphyr as an extra task: it's just part of their existing workflow.
European: All data processing and hosting takes place within the EU, in line with European privacy and data sovereignty standards. Our data centers are also European-based, so there is no dependency on American infrastructure whatsoever.
Secure and reliable: Built to the highest standards for security, privacy, reliability, and protection of health data.
About Delphyr
We're a Dutch company, founded specifically for healthcare. We support care professionals with our integrated AI platform for healthcare so they can focus on patient care. We integrate our AI platform securely into existing systems, without compromising on privacy or security.