AI scribes lead physicians to see ‘friend in the exam room’ or ‘sleep with one eye open’ (opens in new tab)

As the presence of ambient AI scribes to record clinical encounters in the exam room grows increasingly common, experts continue to debate over whether this new technology will ultimately be a friend or foe to physicians.“Ambient AI has the potential to bring about significant changes in what has become the elephant in the room for many physicians: the electronic health record,” Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clini...