
I Ran OpenAI’s New Open Model on My Laptop to Extract Medical Data — Here’s What Happened
Last Updated on August 28, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Marie Humbert-Droz, PhD
Originally published on Towards AI.
Testing privacy-first healthcare AI with OpenAI’s first open-weight models
OpenAI just released its first family of open-weight models, and I couldn’t resist testing them on one of healthcare’s trickiest problems: extracting structured data from messy clinical notes.
The article discusses the new open-weight models released by OpenAI, focusing on their application in clinical data extraction from unstructured clinical notes. It highlights the challenges faced in traditional healthcare data handling, the advantages of running AI locally without the need for cloud services, and provides an overview of the setup and performance of these models in real-world scenarios, emphasizing their potential impact in healthcare workflows.
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