Exploring Potential Applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Future Healthcare: The Case of Sora

In February 2024, OpenAI unveiled Sora, which built on the foundation of ChatGPT and was able to generate videos based on text, representing one of the most advanced Generative Artificial Intelligences (GAIs) in the current world. As a diffusion model, Sora has the ability to generate long and imaginative videos with multiple characters, genre-specific movements, and sophisticated scenarios based only on textual descriptions, as well as excellent scalability. The research objectives are formulated as follows: to explore Sora's potential applications in future healthcare; to identify Sora's potential influence on visualizations of the healthcare industry; and to investigate Sora's potential impact on diagnostic methods. This study adopts the documentary research method. This study finds that Sora has great potential applications in future healthcare in the following aspects: healthcare robots, virtual doctors, simulating surgical procedures, visualizations of medical academic achievements, visualizing medical records, private assistant-type and companion-type robotic doctors, humanmachine interaction in healthcare, reducing burnout among doctors and nurses and so on. This study is one of the earliest to research Sora's potential applications in future healthcare in above mentioned aspects. The current study will not only enrich theoretical research on the integration of GAI (especially Sora) and healthcare, but also contribute to healthcare practice.