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The latest episode of “The UMB Pulse” podcast is scheduled to be released Friday, Nov. 6.
In this episode of “The UMB Pulse,” Katherine E. Goodman, PhD, JD, an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who studies artificial intelligence (AI) in health care, explains how AI scribes work at your health care provider’s office.
They can record clinical conversations, generate transcripts, and draft visit notes for clinician review and sign-off. Goodman explains why adoption is increasing (less clinician screen time, reduced documentation burden, and potential billing gains) and why patients should ask what data is captured, how long it is stored, who retains it, and for what purposes.
She discusses privacy and possible model training, the importance of retaining transcripts to check AI's accuracy, and risks such as AI fabricating and omitting clinically significant information. The conversation covers patient opt-out, varying state consent laws, limited regulation, UMB’s research efforts including a new health AI evaluation center, and why HIPAA requests may not include scribe recordings or transcripts kept for quality and safety work.
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