Hospitals Race to Adopt Generative AI, Even as Regulators Struggle to Keep up With the Risks

Have you wondered about AI in Healthcare? A new article in STAT said that more than 80 health systems are using Epic's model to draft responses to questions sent in via the patient portal. (Epic is a widely used Electronic Health Record). Portals are used by patients to send in questions about anything from appointment issues to prescription or medical problems.

Additionally, dozens of health systems are working on adopting ambient scribes. Scribes enter the pertinent parts of the medical visit into the electronic health record, saving the doctor screen time. You may have encountered a human scribe in your doctor’s office. Ambient scribes do this automatically. An accurate, nuanced ambient scribe has been a holy grail in the industry for years.