AHIMA January 6, 2025
John McCormack

Picture this: at your next provider visit, you notice that your clinician has a voice recognition program on their tablet, and it’s recording your conversation. A few minutes after leaving, you receive an email from the patient portal, notifying you that notes from your visit are ready—and there’s a set of clinical recommendations already prepared.

If that happens, your provider is probably relying on something called ambient listening, which is a form of artificial intelligence technology. Ambient listening AI leverages voice recognition technology to listen to provider-patient conversations in real time, interpret the dialogue, and create medically relevant clinical documentation.

Ambient listening is gaining attention as healthcare organizations start to adopt technology empowered by artificial intelligence (AI). About 30 percent...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), Provider, Technology
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