A surge of new healthcare products from wearable consumer health trackers to diagnostic algorithms promising to improve medical outcomes and costs with artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting physicians and hospital executives to ask a fundamental question: “Are these technologies solving the right problems?”
How AI in the Exam Room Could Reduce Physician Burnout
It can cut down on paperwork and give doctors more time with patients.
November 12, 2019
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Summary.
Ambient Clinical Intelligence systems in hospital beta testing is bringing AI into exam room with an inconspicuous array of microphones to capture the patient interaction accurately regardless of speakers’ movements or positions, with all computing and data entry into the electronic health record taking place behind the scenes in back-end and cloud-based systems. The goal is to reduce doctors’ documentation burden and allow them to spend more time interacting with patients. This could reduce burnout and costs, and improve patients’ and doctors’ experience.