Healthcare workers of Reddit: What is a "hair-on-fire" problem in your daily workflow that AI could actually solve? (No more useless chatbots, please)
Let’s be brutally honest for a second 90% of AI in healthcare right now feels like a fancy solution desperately searching for a problem.
I’m an entrepreneur looking to build something in the health-tech space, but I’m incredibly skeptical of the usual "let's disrupt the hospital system" hype. I want to build a lean, asset-light solution that solves a genuine, painful gap without needing massive VC funding and a ten-year runway to get off the ground.
I’m applying the "Mom Test" here: I don't want to pitch you an idea. I want you to tell me about your pain.
Whether it's in clinical workflows, patient follow-ups, bridging the gap between clinical care and D2C wellness/nutrition, or just the mind-numbing administrative tasks that eat up your day what is broken?
To get the ideas flowing:
What is a task you do every day that makes you think, "Why am I still doing this manually in 2026?"
Where is the biggest bottleneck in patient communication or education?
If you had a magic wand (or just a really well-trained AI model) that could automate exactly one micro-task in your practice, what would it be?
Hit me with your biggest frustrations. I’m here to take notes!