Artificial intelligence companies in the health care sector claim that their products, such as ambient scribes, can help physicians cut down on administrative tasks and allow them to spend more time caring for their patients. Ambient scribes use AI to record a patient’s doctor visit, document it, and then enter details of the conversation into the patient’s electronic health record. But as my STAT colleague Brittany Trang points out in a new story, use of these AI scribes may lead to higher medical bills.
In this week’s installment of STATus Report, Trang joins host Alex Hogan to discuss the counterintuitive reason these AI tools could be making health care even more expensive in the U.S.
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