Communications of the ACM
A.I. May Someday Work Medical Miracles. For Now, It Helps Do Paperwork
Abridge provides an automated solution to modern clerical overload in health care by using A.I. to record and generate a summary of patient visits.
Credit: Audra Melton/The New York Times
Dr. Matthew Hitchcock, a family physician in Chattanooga, Tenn., has an A.I. helper.
It records patient visits on his smartphone and summarizes them for treatment plans and billing. He does some light editing of what the A.I. produces, and is done with his daily patient visit documentation in 20 minutes or so.
Dr. Hitchcock used to spend up to two hours typing up these medical notes after his four children went to bed. "That's a thing of the past," he said. "It's quite awesome."
ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence is coming to health care, and the grand vision of what it could bring is inspiring. Every doctor, enthusiasts predict, will have a superintelligent sidekick, dispensing suggestions to improve care.
But first will come more mundane applications of artificial intelligence.
From The New York Times
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