Still learning this properly, so this stays short and honest rather than confident.

We had two ideas around AI research in HealthFirstAI.

The first was to build a chat interface inside HealthFirstAI where doctors could research a patient’s condition or look up related discoveries.

The second was to build an MCP so doctors could use ChatGPT, Claude or whichever research tool they preferred, while still giving it access to the patient’s information.

The question was product priority. How urgent was this actually?

After spending almost six months inside hospitals, the answer became clearer.

Doctors rarely had the time to research during treatment. In a few cases they would use AI when they were free, but it wasn’t a frequent enough problem to become a priority.

So we focused our time on things that were more urgent and made more sense for the workflow.

I still think the chat interface makes more sense than asking doctors to connect an MCP themselves. Most doctors aren’t going to spend time figuring out how to connect an MCP to ChatGPT or Claude.

If we build this, I’d rather give them something they can use directly.