{"id":421697,"date":"2025-12-03T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421697\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:35:25","slug":"why-many-philadelphia-doctors-use-ai-to-record-patient-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421697\/","title":{"rendered":"Why many Philadelphia doctors use AI to record patient visits"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the University of California San Francisco\u2019s health system rolled out similar technology for their doctors, the response has been \u201cecstatic,\u201d said Dr. Robert Wachter<\/a>, chair of the department of medicine and author of the upcoming book, \u201cA Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future<\/a>.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comments are unlike anything I\u2019ve seen in technology and health care where people usually complain about the technology,\u201d he said. \u201cThe comments are, \u2018I was thinking about retiring until this came out.’\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The health systems say the technology will become a normal part of doctors\u2019 offices in the future.\n<\/p>\n

However, the tools can still make mistakes, and some doctors have mixed feelings about them.\n <\/p>\n

Researchers at Penn Medicine recently published a journal article<\/a> describing how 46 doctors across 17 specialties felt about the AI tool after using it for a few weeks late last year. When the researchers asked the doctors whether they would recommend it to their colleagues, half the group said yes, whereas the other half said no. Some said the automated note-taking makes them more efficient; whereas others said they have to spend time editing the AI-generated notes to make them fit their usual style.
\n\"CorinneDr. Corinne Rhodes, a general medicine practitioner with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, uses an ambient listening tool on her phone to take notes during patient visits. (Emma Lee\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the case for Dr. Corinne Rhodes<\/a>, a primary care physician at Penn Medicine. She used the AI listening program in a recent patient visit.\n<\/p>\n

She explained that she\u2019s developed a system of writing concise notes after years of experience, and now needs to heavily edit parts of what the AI generates for her. However, she expects the program to get better in the future, to the point where it will consistently save her hours, so she wants to start learning it now.
\n\"CorinneDr. Corinne Rhodes, a general medicine practitioner with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, consults Open Evidence, a medical information platform that uses artificial intelligence to aggregate and synthesize medical research. (Emma Lee\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

Kevin Johnson<\/a>, a professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Pennsylvania, said some doctors already expect these tools to be available.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re already finding that there are health care providers who are asking for it as a condition of employment,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018If I come, I really want to have access to ambient scribing,\u2019 because they\u2019ve already seen what the detriment of not having it looks like.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

He was a part of the research team that found doctors had mixed reactions to using the AI note-taking program, and pointed out that since the time of the surveys, program developers have released several updates to improve the software.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the University of California San Francisco\u2019s health system rolled out similar technology for their doctors, the response…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,738,14206,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-421697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-doctors","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115655431477775261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}