Understanding a patient’s AI medical journey

03/10/25 at 02:00 AM

Understanding a patient’s AI medical journey 
The Hastings Center; by Ian Stevens, Erin William, Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pion, and Vardit Ravitsky; 3/5/25
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into U.S. health care, patients should know the ways in which AI is being used in their care, concludes a new paper, “Bring a ‘Patient’s Medical AI Journey’ to the Hill.” Transparency is crucial for interactions between health care providers and individual patients, as well as for systemic level uses of AI, including:

  • AI devices used for patient triage
  • AI-assisted ambient notetaking in which AI apps record conversations between clinicians and patients and generate a draft of clinical notes
  • AI-based evaluation of insurance claims

The authors emphasize that transparency, education, and notification are important for building trust in the use of AI in health care. ...

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