Pat Williams
Tech

For over a decade, the administrative burden in specialty medicine has quietly worsened. Orthopedic surgeons doing forty patients a day are spending more time in the EHR than in the room. Ambient AI scribes have changed that equation in ways…
For over a decade, the administrative burden in specialty medicine has quietly worsened. Orthopedic surgeons doing forty patients a day are spending more time in the EHR than in the room. Ambient AI scribes have changed that equation in ways that are only beginning to show up in the data. But the real opportunity isn’t efficiency for its own sake. It’s building toward a future where technology absorbs the mundane …
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How to test ambient AI scribes before you sign a contract
Tech

For years now, the burnout conversation in health care has been almost exclusively fixated on mid-career physicians, who are staring down decades of EHR documentation and quietly refreshing their LinkedIn profiles. These exhausted doctors in their prime are considering early…
For years now, the burnout conversation in health care has been almost exclusively fixated on mid-career physicians, who are staring down decades of EHR documentation and quietly refreshing their LinkedIn profiles. These exhausted doctors in their prime are considering early exits, career pivots, and anything to get out from under the weight of it all. However, there’s another story playing out, quieter and in some ways more striking, among physicians …
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Why AI scribes keep senior physicians in practice
Tech

When ambient listening and generative AI first entered the clinical mainstream, the value proposition was simple: Reduce documentation burden and give clinicians their evenings back. That promise resonated. Burnout was rising. After-hours charting had become normalized. Health systems needed relief.…
When ambient listening and generative AI first entered the clinical mainstream, the value proposition was simple: Reduce documentation burden and give clinicians their evenings back. That promise resonated. Burnout was rising. After-hours charting had become normalized. Health systems needed relief. And ambient documentation delivered.
But as deployments scaled from pilot projects to enterprise rollouts, the conversation matured. CFOs and revenue cycle leaders began asking a harder question: Beyond time savings, what …
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The ROI of ambient AI in health care and autonomous coding
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