Becker's Healthcare September 5, 2024
Francesca Mathewes

While technology like artificial intelligence and EHRs can help save physicians and their practices time and money, these advancements can present downsides that weigh on physicians.

Despite the efficiencies AI and healthcare tech promise, some say the presence of these technologies shifts the role of physicians.

“Technology including telemedicine, EHR, the specter of AI and shifting patient empowerment, means physicians feel irrelevant again,” Michael Gomez, MD, NICU medical director of Sunrise, Fla.-based Pediatrix, told Becker’s.

The integration of new technologies also means that physicians must shift and adapt the way they practice medicine and invest time in learning how to use new tools.

“These innovations have the potential to transform the way we practice medicine, but they’re...

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