More and more people are trying to come up with new and creative ways to use artificial intelligence. We even see it being used in healthcare. Essentia Health uses artificial intelligence, ambient voice, as a tool to document conversations between a patient and their doctor to save time on writing details in graphs and helping to promote care.
Doctors bring hours at the end and display all information from conversations with their patients in the exam room. That amount of time and work often leads to longer hours in the clinic, which can lead to faster burnout among health workers. Doctor Jon Knight has mapped medical files for more than ten years. He says with Essentia Health with the help of artificial intelligence, it is a game changer with his work in pediatric care.
“I often worked after hours after hours after returning home or at the weekend when I did not see patients. That is a very common problem for almost every doctor, doctors, apps where this is all a common problem. So now that the pressure is finished, most of my notes are made on the same day,” Dr. Kennight. “I can quickly do them between seeing patients. Only the time that savings are has been great.”
For every 8 hours a doctor spends a planned patient care, says the American Medical Association, on average more than 5 of those hours are spent on medical information in the electronic health file. Dr. Kennight says that before using the AI environment, there would be less personal experience for patients who get control with their doctor.
“To ensure that I can accurately conquer the meeting, I would make a kind of Steno notes in the office, type when we go,” said Dr. Kennight. “Later I would change those notes to read better and to support the right invoicing for the meeting. But that would take hours.”
What about guaranteeing the confidentiality of doctors when using AI? Dr. Kennight says that Essentia Health has an agreement with the voice that ensures that none of the speech data is used to train other AI models. The server does not leave that behind and the recorded transcriptions will be removed after 30 days.
“Almost all of my patients have enjoyed it universally. I didn’t let myself be told:” No, don’t do that. I don’t like it, “everyone is agree with this. So that’s a big part of this,” said Dr. Kennight. “Every time we are about to use the technology, we must get permission from the patient or their guardian. People younger than 18 cannot agree with this. So I have to talk to their parent or guardian to ensure that I understand that I will take their voice. If they are good, we can pause the recording at any time.”
Environmental voice will eventually be used to put orders and diagnoses and diagnoses in medical cards in line or to take patient examinations. This is not the first time that WDIO News reported on how AI is used in healthcare. We have a story about researchers who use artificial intelligence for patient screenings in tasting for the treatment of ALS.
