Article Excerpt: Artificial intelligence is spreading rapidly in healthcare, with the goal of streamlining critical but onerous clerical tasks such as note-taking and charting so that physicians and nurses can devote more time to patients.
But even when AI can free up doctors to correspond with patients, it may fall short in helping them do it by introducing errors and extraneous details into their messages, according to a new Dartmouth study presented July 7 at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and published in the conference proceedings.
The result is that physicians may spend more time editing responses than it would take to write them, the researchers report.
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