PT clinic owner shares what actually works: LLM referral parsing and RAG patient history
pigeonnstory · reddit · 2026-08-29
A physical therapy clinic owner who also writes dev tutorials discusses what actually holds up in small-business AI automation:
- Over the past year he used LLMs to parse referral notes and basic RAG to pull patient history faster — it works, imperfectly but well enough to matter.
- The recurring pain point is the gap between demo promises and real workflows where the tool simply must not break when you're shortstaffed.
- For small operations, AI isn't about replacing staff — it's about stopping the owner from being the bottleneck.
He asks the community for scrappy builds that survived: what broke, what stuck, and what they'd do differently.
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