Article Excerpt: For family physicians like Tim Burdick, who practices at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, the work day is long. He gets to work at 7 a.m., sees around 15 patients from 9 to 5 p.m., and leaves around 6 p.m. But his day doesn’t end there. He spends time after work responding to messages from his patients.
And there’s a lot of them, thanks to the availability of online patient portal messaging.
“That’s nice because it increases the availability of doctors, family physicians, and other health care teams, but it also creates an opportunity for a lot of high volume of messages to be coming in around the clock,” Burdick said.
However, at the end of the week, that can add up to roughly 500 messages and leaves physicians like him working until 9:30 p.m.
“That’s leading to burnout among family physicians and other clinicians,” Burdick said. “We need to figure out some ways to use new technology to make that more effective, more efficient for them.”
So Burdick wanted to know if an AI large language model could help. Based on a study he co-authored, the answer to that question is: maybe, with caveats.
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Article Source: New Hampshire Public Radio