It is 7AM on Monday. Your schedule is packed with lab reviews. The first visit of the day is a perimenopause patient eight weeks into a protocol you built carefully. Over the weekend she uploaded her Function Health panel and her updated supplement stack.
The old way takes twenty minutes. You open labs, supplements, and then the last three notes. You hold all of it in your head while you pull up the wearable data she synced on Friday. By the time you have a rough picture, you’re already late for room one.
The new way takes ninety seconds. You ask the chart one question in plain English (we'll share some prompts below). It answers across her entire record. You walk into room one with the picture you used to spend twenty minutes building.
This is the skill that defines clinical work in 2026.
Three workflows to try this week
1. Before the visit
Take the perimenopause patient from the top of this issue. Before you walk in, run this:
Build a timeline of her serum vitamin D, estradiol, and TSH over the last seven years. Mark the dates of supplement and prescription changes. Tell me where the labs improved within three months of each change, and where they did not.
Twenty minutes of detective work becomes a single visual. The conversation in the room starts somewhere new.
2. After the visit
Hand the formatting off with this prompt:
Take the plan I just dictated. Build a five step action plan for the patient at a fifth grade reading level. Add a care coordination letter to her nutritionist summarizing the three biomarker targets I named. Queue it for my signature.
The patient gets her plan in plain language the same day. The nutritionist gets a clean handoff. You sign once.
3. When the patient brings their own data
A patient walks in with their Function panel and SuppCo supplement log. Use this prompt:
Overlay my protocol on what they brought. Show me how serum vitamin D moved during the dose escalation we did in February. Flag anything that suggests poor absorption.
You and the patient read the evidence together. Behavior change happens faster when they watch the line move than when you describe what the line should look like.
Next steps
There are so many different AI tools to consider. Scribes like Heidi capture the visit and route the note where it needs to go. Clinical AI assistants like DeepCura act on the documents you give them. AI-native EHRs like Ultralight hold the whole record now, seven years of labs, the last fifteen notes, the wearable export, the supplement log. See how it all comes together:
Start small. Build the habit on one workflow a week. Mostly right gives you a weekly habit. Mostly wrong shows you where the model breaks, which is its own kind of useful.
Want to see this in real practice? Join us with Dr. Sunjya Schweig on Monday, May 18 at 12PM PT for the Ultralight Community Webinar: AI Skills for the Modern Clinician.
Reply and tell us which workflow did you finally move off your plate this month? Which one is still beating you? The best ideas in this newsletter come from clinicians doing the work, and we read every reply.
— Sunita and Dr. G
Be a modern clinician with the help of Ultralight, the AI-native EHR built specifically for functional, integrative, and longevity medicine.
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Function Health acquired SuppCo. The diagnostic panel and the supplement intake will live in one app, with an independent rating layer on more than 160,000 products and a verification arm that buys products off the shelf and tests them in an ISO accredited lab. Add the question to your intake form this week. "Do you have a Function or SuppCo account? Share access before our visit." The patient who arrives with that view saves you twenty minutes and shows up ready to act.
Upcoming Conferences & Events
May 18 — Ultralight Community Webinar "AI Skills for the Modern Clinician" · Virtual Join Dr. G and Dr. Sunjya Schweig to walk through the new competencies for the AI-savvy clinician, with tangible tips for using a variety of tools in your practice. Register here!
May 27–30, IFM Annual International Conference · San Diego, CA · The largest gathering of functional medicine clinicians in the world. The clinical programming is worth the trip; the hallway conversations are worth twice that. Reply if you want to connect onsite. Ultralight team will be there!
Jun 9–11, Longevity Docs Cannes 2026 · Cannes, France · Invite-leaning room for clinicians at the frontier of longevity medicine. Worth it if you are designing the next iteration of your own practice.
Sep 24–26, Vibrant Longevity Summit · Austin, TX · A clinical room of practitioners running lab-driven, longitudinal care. For anyone building a practice around diagnostics and biomarkers who wants peers who work the same way.
Oct 8–10, A4M Women's Health Summit · San Antonio, TX · The best clinical education on hormone, metabolic, and midlife women's health you will see this year. The room to be in if you are growing the perimenopause and menopause side of your practice.
Oct 21–24, NAMS Annual Meeting · San Diego, CA · The single most practice-changing meeting of the year for midlife women's health. Your protocols will look different after this one.
Nov 5–8, Eudēmonia Summit · West Palm Beach, FL · One of the most talked-about longevity gatherings in the U.S. Experientials, hands-on demos, and the best place to try the emerging frameworks your patients will ask you about next year. Ovation and Ultralight team will be there!
Nov 5-7 — Private Physicians Alliance Annual Meeting · St. Petersburg, FL The gathering for independent, cash-pay, and concierge physicians navigating practice independence. Practical and peer-driven. Ultralight will be there!
Nov 8-11 — American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference · Orlando, FL Lifestyle medicine's main annual event — evidence-based approaches to behavior change, chronic disease, and healthspan. Growing overlap with the longevity medicine community.
Dec 11–13, A4M Longevity Fest · Las Vegas, NV · The biggest longevity event in the U.S. The room spans clinicians, industry, founders, and the people building next year's platforms, and the connections from this one tend to compound through the rest of your year. Ultralight will be there!
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