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Ambient artificial intelligence technology to assist Stanford Medicine clinicians with taking notes

Stanford Medicine integrates AI-powered listening technology that takes notes for health care providers, allowing them to spend more time with patients and less time on administrative tasks.

The app, which was recently tested in a pilot program at Stanford Health Care, harnesses ambient voice recognition technology to create a written summary that captures essential clinical details. “This can be a meaningful way to allow our clinicians to spend more time with their patients and reduce the burden of administrative, nonclinical work that is a huge source of burnout,” said Niraj Sehgal, MD, chief medical officer at Stanford Health Care. “One of the things that was most remarkable to me was my ability to turn away from my keyboard, face the patient and really listen, knowing that everything shared in our conversation was being documented without me having to spend a lot of mental or physical energy capturing it in the moment.”

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