Contributors: Jason Greenberg, MD, Jamie Shoemaker, MD, FACEP, and Richard Saxon, MD, FSIR
If suddenly it seems like all your colleagues are talking about AI, it’s not your imagination. The number of physicians using AI jumped almost 80% in a little over a year, according to the American Medical Association (AMA).
The AMA prefers the term augmented intelligence (rather than artificial intelligence), reflecting AI’s assistive role in healthcare as enhancing human intelligence rather than replacing it. Whatever we call it, AI technology is already influencing the ways we care for our patients and run our practices.
Across specialties, AI is being tapped for use cases including patient triage, ambient note capture, real-time risk analysis, and diagnosis assistance. Practices are also beginning to leverage AI on the business side, exploring ways to streamline billing processes, root out potential denials, and automate some arduous manual tasks.
