Laura Landro reports:
Even the hospital walls may soon have ears.
A fast-growing technology known as ambient listening is taking over an onerous but necessary task in healthcare: documenting what happens in the doctor-patient encounter.
Already gaining traction for outpatient medical visits, the AI-powered systems are also moving into hospital rooms and emergency departments to capture discussions at the bedside, update medical records, draft care plans and create discharge instructions. Healthcare systems nationwide, including Stanford Health Care, Mass General Brigham, University of Michigan Health and Ardent Health, are adopting the technologies widely referred to as AI scribes.
Read more at WSJ.