Ai in the doctors office

[Eyak1971]

Had 2 interactions where ai is now working in our doctors offices. My gp is using Ai to facilitate patients notes by actively recording conversations between doctor and patient and providing a printout that the doctor and assistant would usually be tasked to do. Making the process more efficient and allowing more patients to be served. Eye doctors are moving further. Ai has now entered their treatment plans. Recently attended an online discussion where an ophthalmologist in the east coast is looking at possibility of ai to evaluate a patients testing, medical history, and medication and coming up with a treatment plan to be evaluated by the doctor. Again saving time for doctors research. The only limitation is evaluating visual eye scans. Relies mostly on text and numerical values. But even with that limitation it is doing far better than most doctors. And only a few do better than ai. The reason I bring up this topic is that so many questions and answers appear on this forum that I am sure never are considered in the doctors office. All doctors no matter what speciality spend hours researching and evaluating a patients treatment that could be spent on allowing more patients access to medical care and perhaps even reducing costs. The question always arises with ai is how safe in protecting personal information and accuracy and safety for patient. With my own experience of the present process I would enjoy a second opinion before treatment. Too many times I have experienced medicine interactions and side effects that should have been considered before treatment and doctors who are so self-assured that they do not even consider other options for care. For me I am excited about the possibilities. Anyone else come across ai in your medical experience?

[Transplant2018]

I would hope that having AI do notes should allow the doctor to actually make eye contact and interact more rather than having to be typing notes on the computer.

[Eyak1971 in reply to Transplant2018]

Hopefully yes. Thanks for sharing.

[PostivelyJo]

my son who is a physio has started using it. He demonstrated it to me. I was blown away by it. He said it gives him so much more time with patients and records things far more accurately

[Eyak1971 in reply to PostivelyJo]

Thanks for sharing.

[Mandelin]

I hope they double and triple check everything because as I’ve been using ChatGPT I’ve found it to not always give the correct answer.

[Eyak1971 in reply to Mandelin]

Good idea. Like all tools the human touch is what makes the difference.

[Parkerbarker]

Not in my health care yet but in my vet clinic we got it to generate notes and files and it is a godsent! The files can be done immeditately as it you talk it generates and done.Paperwork was litterally bogging us done trying to do files and yet do actually patient care in a very busy practice.

[Eyak1971 in reply to Parkerbarker]

Thanks for sharing.