MedPage Today September 10, 2019
Bertalan Mesko PhD

-Emerging technologies make it a distinct possibility

Administration embitters the life of medical professionals and significantly lengthens their shifts. You couldn’t lure a prospective medical student into entering the profession if you said that half of the physicians’ average workdays are spent entering data into EHRs and conducting clerical work, while just 27% is spent with actual patients. Could smart algorithms change this disappointing picture for the better? Technological development and research done so far tell us that they can. In the future, AI can help cut back on medical administration and thus free up the valuable time of doctors.

Updating medical records, information management, operational tasks, scheduling patient visits — these tasks clearly do not represent the creative part...

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