It used to be difficult for Edith Couturier, an 85-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, to explain to her adult children on the West Coast all the details of her medical appointments. But ...

A Penn Medicine resident physician developed a dictation tool that uses artificial intelligence to make note-taking and administrative tasks easier for physicians. Nikhil Illa — now a second-year ...

In April, the federal government mandated that healthcare providers provide free electronic access to patients' clinical notes, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act. This includes eight types of ...

Doctors in the U.S. spend an average of 1.84 hours per day completing electronic notes outside their regular work hours, recent studies have shown — and 57% of them said documentation takes away from ...

Encouraging patients to help write and add notes to their personal medical charts -- a task typically handled only by medical professionals -- may help patients feel more involved with their own care ...

AI is taking over the grunt work in healthcare, and doctors couldn’t be more ready for the help. Investment in artificial ...

Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation, and the company continues to rapidly roll out new capabilities and features. The company ...

Artificial intelligence has been used "behind the scenes" in health care for decades, but with the growing popularity of new technologies such as ChatGPT, it’s now playing a bigger role in patient ...

Note takers grew out of villages movement that helps elderly age in place Keeping information straight from a doctor can be challenging for any age group There just may not be enough volunteers to ...

At Weill Cornell Medicine where I work, regular doctors were not able to access psychiatry notes in the electronic health record (EHR). This meant primary care practitioners (PCPs) could read ...

Patients could benefit if they are invited to co-produce medical notes, called 'OurNotes,' with their doctors, rather than merely reading them. The practice may also benefit doctors by reducing time ...