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I’m curious on what others think about their doctor using AI scribes. I’m especially curious what people think about letting their therapist use one. I was recently asked if my therapist could use it, and I did hesitate. From the article: The best measurement available is a 2025 study in npj Digital Medicine that had clinicians annotate 12,999 sentences of AI-written documentation built from real primary care conversations. The AI invented content in 1.47% of sentences and left something out in 3.45%. Of the invented content, 44% was rated major. Omissions were the more common problem. The AI is summarizing, and summarizing means deciding what to drop. The doctor is supposed to catch that before signing, and most do. A University of California, Irvine analysis of 23,760 notes containing AI-drafted sections found 84.4% were edited before sign-off, which also means about one in six were signed with no changes at all. Robert Wachter, who chairs the department of medicine at UC San Francisco, raised the enforcement problem with Medical Economics, which reported that there is no technical mechanism to ensure a physician has actually read the note before signing it. The recording is a different thing from the note. A note is a summary, and a person decided what belonged in it. The audio is everything that was said out loud. The aside you did not think was part of the visit. The relative who spoke up from the chair in the corner. The thing your doctor heard and chose not to write down. The American Bar Association’s health law section tells providers to assume AI-generated documentation may be scrutinized in malpractice claims, privacy actions, or regulatory investigations. How long the audio is retained is set by the health system, not by your doctor. Kaiser Permanente told CalMatters in June 2026 that recordings are stored no longer than 14 days. A patient FAQ from a California pediatric group using Abridge says audio and transcripts are automatically deleted after 30 days, and that the practice does not give patients a copy of either one. And systems that follow every rule still get breached. Using the federal breach portal, HIPAA Journal counted 772 large healthcare breaches in 2025 affecting about 138.5 million people. The running total since 2009 passed a billion people this spring. Most of us are already uneasy about it. A KFF poll of 1,343 adults taken in late February and early March 2026 found 77% were concerned about the privacy of personal medical information given to AI tools. Among people who had already handed over that kind of information, 65% were still concerned. submitted by /u/FreshFromCache

Originally posted by u/FreshFromCache on r/ArtificialInteligence