In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Primary care tech startup Carbon Health is using artificial intelligence to listen in on patient appointments and automatically write up near-complete notes within minutes, directly in ...

SAN DIEGO — Doctors in San Diego are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to handle one of medicine's most time-consuming tasks: writing patient notes. The technology, called "AI scribe," ...

October 1, 2012 — Primary care physicians and patients believe that allowing patients to review doctors' notes has significant benefits and few problems, according to the findings of a ...

Patients should not have to file formal requests to understand their own care, and they should not be excluded from ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Clinical notes for patients with substance use disorder (SUD) contained stigmatizing language -- such as "junkie," "dirty user," and "this drunk" -- on a regular basis, according to a ...

Clerical documentation burdens for physicians expanded during the past decade in part due to increased regulatory requirements and the corresponding proliferation of EHRs — one 2017 study found ...

Physician assistant Sarah Garwood talks with Meryl Ruda during an appointment at the UNC Family Medicine at Panther Creek office Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Ethan Hyman ehyman@newsobserver.com In the ...