The Truth About Ambient Listening in Healthcare IT - HIStalk

Readers Write: From Hype to Headache: The Truth About Ambient Listening - HIStalk In the evolving landscape of healthcare IT, ambient listening tools promise to ease documentation burdens but often fall short. While capturing physician-patient conversations sounds appealing, the reality is complex. Inaccurate or incomplete notes can compromise patient safety and care quality. Contextual understanding is crucial; without it, even high-accuracy transcripts may misrepresent clinical intent. Health systems must prioritize solutions that generate structured, codified data to ensure usability for billing and decision support. As we navigate this technology, let’s focus on meaningful advancements rather than succumbing to hype. #HealthcareIT #AmbientListening #ClinicalDocumentation #AIinHealthcare #PatientSafety #HealthTech #DigitalHealth ai.mediformatica.com #ambientlistening #clinical #physician #documentation #health #medical #clinicians #hype #burden #chiefmedicalofficer #healthsystems #histalk #digitalhealth #healthit #healthtech #healthcaretechnology @MediFormatica (https://buff.ly/DeJJEW9)

Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 11/3/25 - HIStalk The AMA's new Center for Digital Health and AI aims to integrate physicians into technology development, but skepticism remains about its feasibility and impact. With declining membership and concerns over the value of roles like CMIO, many physicians doubt the AMA's commitment to frontline providers. As AI continues to evolve, the balance between innovation and clinician well-being is critical. The challenge lies in ensuring that AI tools genuinely enhance patient care rather than complicate workflows. How can we advocate for meaningful physician involvement in AI development? #HealthcareIT #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #PhysicianEngagement #HealthTech #ClinicalInformatics #HealthInnovation ai.mediformatica.com #physicians #health #clinical #clinicalworkflow #digital #medicine #workflow #digitalhealth #medical #americanmedicalaociation #drjayne #histalk #healthit #healthtech #healthcaretechnology @MediFormatica (https://buff.ly/uzHFG80)

AI is no longer a future concept in health care — it’s here, and practices are feeling the impact. A new survey of 887 clinicians shows half of medical practices are already using AI tools, with the biggest gains in documentation, fax automation, and soon, patient communication. See where practices are investing next — and why ROI and workflow relief are driving adoption. 👉 https://hubs.li/Q03TfH9H0 #MedicalEconomics #HealthTech #ArtificialIntelligence #PrimaryCare #PracticeManagement #DigitalHealth

The American Medical Association (AMA) has launched the Centre for Digital Health and AI to ensure physicians play a central role in shaping and integrating emerging technologies in #medicine. The Centre will focus on policy leadership, clinical workflow integration, education, and collaboration to guide the responsible use of digital and AI tools in #healthcare. The initiative aims to bridge enthusiasm for #AI among physicians with practical strategies that safeguard data privacy, reliability, and patient-centred outcomes. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/ej57hqie #digitalhealth #healthtech #medtech

1,200 doctors stopped typing during patient visits. 20% less screen time, 30% less after-hours documentation. Penn Medicine proved something every physician suspected. The doctor-patient relationship was drowning in paperwork. Now AI scribes are changing everything. They listen to conversations. Filter out small talk. Generate structured medical notes in minutes. Dr. Bracken Babula at Jefferson Health hits record and maintains eye contact throughout visits. No more typing while patients talk. The results speak volumes: • 20% reduction in EHR time during visits • 30% less after-hours documentation • Goal to reclaim 10 million clinician hours by 2028 • The Permanente Medical Group saved 15,791 physician hours in one year But this isn't just about efficiency. It's about bringing humanity back to healthcare. When doctors aren't staring at screens, they connect with patients. Challenges remain. Data privacy concerns. Accuracy issues with accents. The need for human oversight. That's why the "human in the loop" approach matters. Doctors review every AI-generated note before it becomes official. By 2025, 30% of healthcare will use ambient AI scribes. Some academic systems may hit 50%. The future of medicine isn't replacing doctors with AI. It's freeing doctors to be more human. What barriers do you see to AI adoption in your healthcare experience? #HealthcareAI #DigitalHealth #PatientCare 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲꞉ https://lnkd.in/gnR7vqcG

AI isn’t replacing people in healthcare; it’s empowering them. We’re proud of Rick Abbot for representing Woven Health Collective at the Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) Technology & Innovation Symposium! His latest blog highlights how AI and human insight together are transforming Medical Affairs. 📖 Read more: https://lnkd.in/ec3DhKTw #MedicalAffairs #AI #Innovation #WovenHealthCollective

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚-𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 - 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙖 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩? 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡. 𝘼 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 - 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝙒𝙚'𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩... 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨.” This awesome conversation with Veena Jones, CMIO at Sutter Health, really got me thinking even more deeply about the impact of tech on clinical workflows. Fun fact: Dr. Jones was the first ever to do fellowships in both pediatric hospital medicine and clinical informatics. On our recent episode of The Digital Patient, we dug into: → How compared to 10+ years ago, informatics is still 20% tech and 80% change management - BUT folks entering informatics today are learning about AI instead of stumbling into EHR work like the previous generation. → How to avoid AI clinician co-pilot fatigue means accepting that clinicians don’t want one perfect workflow - they want THEIR workflow, which makes personalization the real frontier and the hardest part of the work. → How Sutter going all-in on Ambient AI 1.5 years ago wasn’t just a timely tech bet - it also showed that the real return isn’t just financial but also the restoration of clinicians’ time, well-being, and dignity. → How in an era where clinicians are quietly cutting back their FTEs and health systems spend fortunes trying to replace them, Ambient AI falls short if it’s framed only as a productivity tool - its true value is preserving clinician longevity, not squeezing out more output. → While early clinician adopters of AI may be informatics-savvy change agents, at scale the ‘phenotype’ of who embraces AI varies wildly by use case - revealing a J-curve where enthusiasm, hesitation, and outright refusal all coexist until real-world value becomes very clear. → How including patient feedback to shape Sutter’s Epic ART Gen AI patient portal message drafts showed the value of patients teaching healthcare staff what ‘sounds human’ - and then tuning the AI to that shared voice. … and much, much more! Link to the episode in the comments below 👇

HIStalk Interviews Peter Bonis, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Wolters Kluwer Health - HIStalk In a recent interview, Dr. Peter Bonis, CMO of Wolters Kluwer Health, emphasized the critical role of clinician-authored content in enhancing clinical decision-making. He highlighted that informed clinicians can change treatment plans 30% of the time based on reliable information. With the rise of AI, the challenge lies in delivering tailored, accurate insights without overwhelming healthcare providers. Dr. Bonis advocates for robust governance in AI tools to ensure transparency and safety in patient care. As healthcare evolves, the integration of advanced technologies must prioritize clinician needs and patient trust. #HealthcareIT #ClinicalDecisionSupport #AIinHealthcare #PatientCare #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #MedicalEducation ai.mediformatica.com #health #healthcare #about #medical #uptodate #healthcareprofeionals #faculty #wolterskluwer #medicine #chiefmedicalofficer #histalk #peterbonis #digitalhealth #healthit #healthtech #healthcaretechnology @MediFormatica (https://buff.ly/uzHFG80)

What if doctors could spend 0% of their time typing and 100% on patient care? This article explores how AI-driven medical documentation is freeing clinicians from the keyboard therby reducing admin burden and unlocking more time for meaningful care. #HealthTech #Biotech #AIinHealthcare #BostonLifeSciences https://lnkd.in/eZSAYdss