Likelihood is that in your doctor’s appointments nowadays, your physician is laser focused on typing notes right into a computer while talking with you. They do this to get the clinical information into the electronic health record.
But what if artificial intelligence took the notes for them?
Doctors and medical professionals who’ve adopted the technology are finding AI-powered visits can save time and help fight burnout.
“I feel 40% to 60% of clinicians are, you understand, identifying with feeling burnt out. And we face this huge shortage and physicians within the U.S. you understand, by 2025, I feel they estimate [a] 90,000-physician shortage within the U.S. alone. And so, we want to combat that administrative burden,” said Dr. Julie O’Connor, physician solutions consultant at Microsoft’s Nuance division.
Nuance developed DAX Express, a generative AI-powered clinical documentation app that creates those critical doctor’s notes — immediately.
I sat down with Dr. O’Connor at Microsoft’s demonstration center for a simulated doctor’s appointment. I talked to her about my real issues with plantar fasciitis.
She ran DAX Express to record our interaction and one minute after she pressed stop on the recording, the app had typed up a full medical documentation that may go right into a medical record.
This wasn’t only a transcription. It focused on the pertinent medical issues and ignored the chit chat. It did miss one in every of her recommendations, that I should get an X-ray, but she easily added it back in.
From a patient perspective, I even have to confess it was refreshing to check with a health care provider who wasn’t typing right into a PC, after which to get a record that basically captured what I used to be saying.
I discovered it a positive experience, especially if could help relieve my doctor and her staff from a number of the drudge work.
— CNBC’s Jodi Gralnick contributed to this report.
