Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI

As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of all the efforts going on to improve the physician documentation process.  It’s a burden that’s burning out physicians.  One of the biggest efforts out there right now is called Ambient Clinical Voice.  The biggest player in this right now is Nuance (now part of Microsoft) and their DAX product (They like to call it ambient clinical intelligence).  3M through MModal is playing in this space as well.  Suki is another AI assistant that’s taking a very different approach to the problem.  Plus, there are also a number of scribe companies literally putting people in exam rooms to address the issue.  In other words, there are a lot of companies working on this problem since the documentation burden on clinicians is real. One of the biggest challenges of ambient clinical voice is that while the technology is listening to the conversation in the exam room, the back end solutions today are using a mix of technology and people (essentially remote scribes) to create the note.  For the end user, the note is created automagically for them.  However, it’s not as automated as the user may think. Why is this a problem?  The problem is two fold in my view.  First, if there are humans doing the work in the backend, that means that you can’t use technology to drive the cost of the service down.  Sure, the AI can make the humans more efficient and effective, but it still means that ambient clinical voice using ...
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