Opinion: As a primary care physician, here’s how I hope to partner with AI
I am both excited and terrified by the entrance of artificial intelligence into my primary care practice.
AI’s enormous potential to help clinicians become more focused on patients, available, diagnostically accurate, and efficient feels like a dream. Yet memories of the nightmarish introduction of the electronic heath record into clinicians’ work lives looms like a dark cloud. Since EHRs swept into clinical life with passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, we have toiled away trying to make them as useful for clinical care as they are for billing, legibility, and data storage. That goal still seems like the wet pavement mirage on the highway: never getting closer as we speed along.
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