AI Medical Scribes Are Changing The Game
An AI medical scribe is a secure computer software that listens to your physician-patient conversations, transcribes it, and, typically, packages it into an EHR-ready clinic note. They can be used to automate documentation and clinical note taking, allowing physicians more time to be more present during patient interactions.
AI medical scribes are specially trained for clinical applications and the natural language processing allows them to understand complex medical dialogue. With these advances in language processing and their easy integration into existing workflows, they can lead to various benefits for practices and practitioners decision-making.
More Accurate Notes
Because they are transcribing everything that is said in a patient encounter, AI medical scribes can catch details a human scribe may miss and help reduce human error. This can lead to more accurate, complete, and in-depth notes for more informed clinical decision making.
More engaged office visits
When a digital, invisible AI scribe is doing the documentation, providers are able to speak to and connect with patients more fluidly. With the help of scribes, physicians are able to have more face-to-face conversations, engage in active listening, and have opportunities for better human interactions with patients, rather than facing a computer screen.
More cost-effective and convenient
It is difficult and expensive to hire and train an in-clinic, medical scribe role for every provider in a practice and every encounter each provider has. Medical scribe positions often have high turn-over rates resulting in costs related to recruiting, hiring, and training. Meanwhile, AI scribes can be used simultaneously by numerous physicians and go anywhere the physician goes. Though AI scribes involve some upfront investment, it establishes a steady system of long-term cost-benefits and convenience.
More inclusive language practices
Most AI medical scribes work in dozens of different languages. They are not meant to replace professional medical translators but rather supplement these interlingual conversations by providing physicians with a full transcript of what was said in all languages detected.
This way medical decision-making is not limited to the few languages in the capabilities of a human medical scribe or by the filter of a medical translator. Some AI scribe technologies are also able to generate real-time transcription, allowing the clinician to read along as the patient is speaking a different language and adjust their responses accordingly.
Faster updates of patient records
Because AI scribes are able to immediately generate clinical notes, information from encounters can be more quickly shared with care teams, other providers, and the patients themselves. This can help reduce bottlenecks in the process of implementing care and more efficient, informed decision-making.
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