What are AI digital assistants for healthcare providers

For healthcare providers, a new category of technology -AI-powered digital assistants- is improving their capabilities and capabilities, as well as decreasing their administrative and cognitive workloads. The need for artificially intelligent digital assistants in healthcare is critical to primary care physicians, because routine tasks of primary care physicians include significant shares of EHR, finance, reports, and other administrative needs. See Family Medicine article.

According to research published last year in the Family Medicine Journal, primary care physicians are now spending more time on EHRs compared with in-person patient visits, and the majority of physicians are doing paperwork on the EHRs outside of working hours. In the landmark 2017 paper, "Tethered to EHRs," primary-care physicians spent over 50% of their workdays on the EHR, averaging 4.5 hours a day in clinics and 1.5 hours an hour after hours a day in the office. Doctors Recordings A recent study found physicians spent about 16 minutes, on average, on their EHRs, per patient visit.

AI digital assistants are also claimed to efficiently help identify neglected bits of a health care operations chain. An extended list of commands now gives physician users of a digital assistant a more optimized information retrieval and documenting experience, which reduces administrative workloads and frees more time to focus on treating patients.

While a speech-based AI assistant in the exam room could reduce documentation burden by automatically extracting medical information from physician-patient conversations, patient-centered solutions such as mobile health apps and automated triage tools could improve patient experience and reduce the burden on the health care system.