On the caregivers' side, AI is entering medical decision-making to support judgment more than to change it. Its use remains massive nonetheless: 91% of caregivers use it, one point more than in 2025. Beyond the clinical decision, caregivers identify other benefits. Time savings come first, cited by 64% of them, eight points more.
Among patients who use AI for their health, 71% used it after an appointment, to understand a diagnosis, a report or a test result. Forty-four percent have already done so for lack of an available appointment.
Twenty-eight percent of the doctors surveyed have also seen a patient refuse the prescribed treatment. A year after a first edition that noted massive adoption of AI by caregivers, the survey measures what these practices actually change.
Forty-six percent of patients surveyed arrived at the doctor's with a precise idea of their pathology or of the tests to request. Patients also use it to prepare for an appointment.
Caregivers have integrated it into their daily lives. Forty-three percent use it every day, eleven points more than in the first barometer.
Fifty-eight percent of caregivers consider AI useful against medical deserts.
Nearly a third of doctors have already modified a clinical decision after conducting research using artificial intelligence.
More and more people are turning to artificial intelligence for medical advice, for lack of an appointment or to understand a diagnosis, a report or a test result.
Thirty-eight percent of caregivers have already seen a patient contest their diagnosis after consulting an artificial intelligence, according to the second edition of a barometer devoted to AI uses on both sides of the consultation.