Probabilities are that in your doctor’s appointments nowadays, your physician is laser focused on typing notes right into a computer while talking with you. They try 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 believe 40% to 60% of clinicians are, you understand, identifying with feeling burnt out. And we are facing this huge shortage and physicians within the U.S. you understand, by 2025, I believe they estimate [a] 90,000-physician shortage within the U.S. alone. And so, we’d like 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 might go right into a medical record.
This wasn’t only a transcription. It focused on the pertinent medical issues and not noted the chit chat. It did miss considered one 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 confer with a physician who wasn’t typing right into a PC, after which to get a record that actually captured what I used to be saying.
I discovered it a positive experience, especially if could help relieve my doctor and her staff from among the drudge work.
— CNBC’s Jodi Gralnick contributed to this report.