Pioneering an AI clinical copilot with Penda Health

OpenAI and Penda Health studied 39,849 visits across 15 clinics in Kenya and found clinicians using AI Consult had 16% fewer diagnostic errors and 13% fewer treatment errors. The copilot used GPT-4o from August 2024, was embedded into the EHR in early 2025, and surfaced green/yellow/red alerts, with red alerts requiring review. The key point is deployment design: this is not autonomous care, but a safety net that triggers when an error is likely.