Ready, Set, Press Pause: Legal Risks And Best Practices To Implement Before Recording With An AI Scribe

As healthcare providers and institutions explore ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) can address persistent operational challenges, attention increasingly turns to AI scribes. While these tools have a range of features and functionalities, at their core, they provide an unobtrusive audio recording capability that creates a transcript of the recorded doctor-patient conversations and generates a transcript that can facilitate more formal documentation, such as a note in an electronic medical record.

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Simply put, AI scribes are voice-to-text tools that use AI to better interpret spoken speech. These tools are ubiquitous enough to warrant an appearance in the acclaimed HBO series The Pitt, reflecting the pros and cons these tools can manifest in public imagination. While AI scribes can provide immediate pidends to reduce provider administrative burnout, providers and institutions considering deployment should pause and consider some of the interesting – and potentially