Some US doctors increasingly using artificial intelligence to take notes during appointments


Orthopedic surgeon Robert Gray (right) meets with patient Robert Johnston at his office in an Endeavor Health medical building in Skokie on Dec 11, 2024. Dr Gray uses an Abridge listening and transcription app on his iPhone that’s made especially for medical professionals. The app uses AI to transcribe and summarise important patient information gleaned from the conversations between doctors and their patients. — Chicago Tribune/TNS

It was easy to miss Dr Robert Gray’s quick movements, tapping the screen of his smartphone at the beginning and end of patient visits on a recent day.

But Gray said those fast finger taps have changed his life. He was tapping an app that records discussions during his appointments and then uses artificial intelligence to find the relevant information, summarise it and zap it, within seconds, into each patient’s electronic medical record.


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