The end of forms

A doctor sits across from a patient discussing symptoms. An AI listens. When the doctor turns to open the patient record, there’s no traditional interface waiting.

No tabs for “Current Medications” or “Previous Visits” or “Lab Results.” No forms to fill out. The screen shows exactly what this conversation needs. Lab results from last month because the patient mentioned ongoing fatigue. Previous notes about the shoulder injury because they just described similar pain.

The doctor says “show me the last few sessions as a summary.” The AI adds it to the view. Everything relevant, nothing extra.

During the appointment, the AI has been taking notes. Not transcribing everything, but capturing the medical decisions. When it’s time to document, the AI presents what it understood and asks about what it didn’t. “You mentioned adjusting the dosage but I didn’t catch the new amount.” “Should I schedule a follow-up for the chest X-ray results?”

The doctor confirms, corrects and adds context. Once. The same information doesn’t get entered in three different systems or copied across multiple forms.

The interface becomes a conversation about what happened rather than a data entry task. The AI handles the busywork of figuring out which fields need updating, which systems need notifications, which follow-ups need scheduling.

This isn’t about replacing doctors with AI. It’s about replacing forms with intelligence.

The building blocks for this future are already here. Anthropic is currently testing “Imagine with Claude,” where Claude generates software interfaces on the fly.

We’re moving toward a world where software doesn’t just respond to users. It imagines itself into existence around them.