A growing share of those patients are uploading their test results straight into AI chatbots , leaving some medical professionals concerned about hallucinations, misinterpretations and privacy issues. Roughly a third of adults turn to AI chatbots for health advice, and 19% use AI specifically to interpret lab results or medical tests, according to a 2026 poll from health policy research nonprofit KFF. Anthropic’s Claude can connect to some users’ medical records, and Epic Systems, the electronic medical-records behemoth, has an AI assistant built into its software. More of Mulcahey’s patients are feeding imaging results into AI, too. Research from 2024 examined how effective AI chatbots were at simplifying pathology reports.