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"Visits to a new doctor, physio or specialist often begin with: “Do you mind if
I use AI?”
According to
Off the Record, a new report by Digital Rights Watch, more than
40% of Australian doctors are now using AI scribes. These tools listen to
consultations, feeding what they hear into Large Language Models – similar to
ChatGPT or Claude – to generate medical notes.
For clinicians, AI scribes are an easy sell. They eliminate hours of paperwork,
freeing energy to focus on the patient. This can profoundly change how
chronically burned out doctors feel about their work. And with Medicare only
compensating doctors for face-to-face time, and not note-taking, the financial
and emotional incentives for practitioners are undeniable.
Yet the benefit for patients is less clear, especially when we have little
transparency about who has access to deeply personal medical data, or how this
data is handled by these lightly regulated AI scribes."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
