Get consent for every consult with an AI scribe to comply with state surveillance laws, says MDO
A medical defence organisation is advising GPs to obtain consent every time they use an AI scribe to take consultation notes, even for repeat patients.…
Tag: Artificial intelligence (A.I.)
The new court ruling that makes me wary of using AI
As a part-time scribe, medico-legal adviser and confirmed luddite, the following brings a warm glow to the cockles of my heart. Whither AI? The Supreme…
AI producing medical notes for more than 10,000 consults a day, says Lyrebird boss
Doctors are using AI scribes to draft medical notes in more than 10,000 consult a day, claims Lyrebird co-founder Kai Van Lieshout. While the numbers…
Why radiologists do not expect that AI will put them out of business
As the buzz around AI grew, some doctors started hinting to their radiologist colleagues about finding another specialty because, obviously, radiologists would be the first…
Pancreatitis, party mishaps and panic — the clinical cases where AI fails
Imaging misinterpretation was meant to fall quickly to AI’s diagnostic supremacy, but a study of 150 clinical challenges suggests that imaging, numbers and party hijinks…
Is this finally a revolution for patient consults that GPs actually want?
Let’s be blunt. Amid the myriad dystopian futures resulting from the nervous embrace of artificial intelligence, there is a real-world promise of freedom for doctors.…
Meet the GP who engineered his own AI assistant: ‘My clinical work still pays better’
Dr Horst Herb is a rural GP by day. His evenings, however, are dedicated to coding an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assess studies before…
RACGP publishes guidelines for GPs using AI scribes to draft medical notes
The RACGP has published guidelines for GPs using AI to generate medical notes based on recordings of their consultations, warning they could become over-reliant on…
‘We don’t know if it’s risk-free’: Experts raise fears about doctors using AI to draft medical notes
Regulators have no insight into the risks of the AI technology being used by GPs to record patient consults and generate medical notes, the Australian…
Could AI become the ultimate decider for end-of-life care?
Doctors obviously lack imagination. While the medical profession has been anguished at the prospect of their mass redundancy as a result of diagnostic machine learning,…
