The AI That’s Quietly Rewriting Medicine Today I had a routine visit to the doctor to check on some lower abdominal pain that I had been experiencing a few weeks ago. Luckily, it has subsided. While at the doctor’s office, he surprisingly, and for the very first time, asked if I was okay with our conversation being recorded. He raised a mobile device, implying that it would be recorded on it. I said, “Sure, why not?” I tried to peek at his screen to see what app he was using, but couldn’t quite make it out. Our exchange went well, and I’m glad to say I’m in reasonably good health. At the end of the visit, I finally let my curiosity get the better of me and asked what they were using to record the conversation. Not surprisingly, he said, “It’s an AI app called Ambient. He added, “It makes our jobs so much easier and faster.” I left the doctor’s office wondering, who, or what, will apps like this be replacing soon? I came home determined to research and learn more. Athelas is a San Francisco health tech company whose AI-powered “Scribe” tool listens to doctor-patient conversations and automatically generates clinical notes, turning what used to be 15–20 minutes of post-visit typing into a 30-second review. It tackles one of medicine’s biggest problems, which is that doctors spend twice as much time on paperwork as they do with actual patients. The market is crowded, with Microsoft, Google, and several well-funded startups all competing in the same space, but Athelas stands out by combining note-taking with billing and coding automation. The roles most at risk are medical scribes, transcriptionists, coders, and prior authorization specialists, essentially every support job that exists to manage documentation. One of the benefits is that this tech may actually restore something medicine has been losing for years, which is a doctor who is fully present in the room with you. submitted by /u/Yavero
Originally posted by u/Yavero on r/ArtificialInteligence
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