Welcome to Pippen, your AI-powered physician assistant. In our Mini How-To Series, we will be going through how to use Pippen’s features to address the entire family medicine workflow beyond its scribing capabilities. Today, we will cover how to use Pippen for guidance on differential diagnosis. Please remember Pippen is meant as a supportive tool and not meant to replace your clinical judgment.

Our guide will be using the “Begin with Text” feature. When you enter Pippen’s platform, you will be presented with the option to “Begin with Text” or “Begin with Audio”. To type in your own details, click “Begin with Text”!

Now that you have clicked “Begin with Text”, you can jot down notes about your encounter or scenario for which you would like some insights on differential diagnosis. You can type these notes into the ‘Chat with Pippen’ text box.

To use the Differential Diagnosis feature, click the “Differential Diagnosis” button on the right (no need to click the ↑ first). Pippen will begin generating common diagnoses, do not miss diagnoses, and a most likely diagnosis. Again, please note that this feature does not replace your clinical judgment but simply serves to provide information that may be pertinent to the encounter.

To end the encounter, click the “End Encounter” button in the top right.

And that’s it! Pippen helps you receive clinical insights instantaneously, removing the need to scroll through pages and pages of clinical evidence that may or may not be relevant to your encounter. We hope this helps!

Contributed by: Bonnie Wen

Bonnie Wen is a Health Sciences student at McMaster University and a summer student with Pippen.