HIMSSCast: Ambient AI scribes pose important regulatory and legal questions

Jennifer Geetter, partner at McDermott Will & Schulte, discusses the need for providers to sort out issues relating to patient consent, storage and archiving, HIPAA rules, and other federal and state policies. Ambient scribes powered by artificial intelligence have enormous potential to enable big efficiencies in electronic health record documentation, saving clinicians hours spent at their keyboard doing burdensome charting. For that reason, they're getting quite popular as more and more docs hope to avail themselves of their time-saving benefits – with some even "begging" their IT leadership to use them. But AI scribes are anything but a plug-and-play technology.…

Source: MobiHealthNews