AI and the Biggest Experiment in Medicine | Robert Wachter, MD

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of AI on electronic medical records and patient care, featuring insights from Robert Wachter, MD.

The electronic medical record (EMR) has become an unwelcome interloper in the exam room. Too often, patients find themselves answering questions delivered from behind a monitor by physicians hurriedly typing away. This isn’t the kind of care anyone wants — but it’s what the system demands. Thankfully, change may be on the horizon. AI scribes are now being rolled out in EMRs across the country, capable of listening to a visit, generating a clinic note, and freeing the physician to be pre...

People in this episode

Hosts: Henry Bair, Tyler Johnson

Guest: Robert Wachter, MD

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• electronic medical records
• patient care
• healthcare technology
• medical practice

Keywords

• AI scribes
• EMR
• patient experience
• clinic note
• healthcare innovation

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Organizations: EMR

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