Forbes March 4, 2024
Jesse Pines

It used to be safe to assume your doctor’s visit was a completely private affair between you and your physician. This is changing with ambient artificial intelligence, a new technology that listens to your conversation and processes information. Think Amazon’s Alexa, but in your doctor’s office. An early use case is ambient AI scribing: it listens, then writes a clinical note summarizing your visit. Clinical notes are used to communicate diagnostic and treatment plans within electronic health records, and as a basis to generate your bill.

A recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine described the deployment of ambient AI in The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser’s Northern California physician group. Since October 2023, ambient AI scribes were used...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology, Voice Assistant
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