MedCity News August 25, 2024
Health systems across the country are launching enterprise-wide deployments of AI-powered clinical documentation tools. Hospital leaders agree that this technology reduces physician burnout, as well as allows physicians to have more meaningful and productive interactions with patients.
Internal medicine physician Dr. Missy Scalise can recall the darkest day of her career vividly.
“I was taking my son to his five year-old annual physical and the doctor was asking him the typical sort of questions like, ‘What are you doing in school?’ or ‘What are you excited about?’ Then the doctor asked him, ‘What does your mom play with when she’s with you?’ and my son answered, ‘She works on her computer.’ That just about broke me — I’m still sad...