Have you ever been in a store that just had too much to look at or look through? Perhaps you went to dinner at a restaurant where the menu could be a book with dozens of options. In both examples, there is just too much to process and find what you are looking for at that moment in time.

We are entering an age where you will hear, “it is all available online”. “Just ask <insert the name of the preferred LLM (large language model)>.

However, having something available via a short prompt does not necessarily make it meaningful nor address all information needs. Instead, you must create the meaning behind the data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

Lawrence Weed wrote “Medical Records that Guide and Teach” in 1968, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Here we are in 2026, nearly 60 years later, and reading that historical referent holds true still today.

What does this mean? We still have more work to do in order to ensure people have the right information needed for their healthcare experiences.