Artificial intelligence companies in the healthcare sector claim that products such as surrounding scribes can help physicians cut down on administrative tasks and spend more time caring for patients. Surrounding scribes use AI to record and document the patient's physician visits and enter conversation details into the patient's electronic health record. However, as my statistical colleague Brittany Tran points out in the new story, the use of these AI scribes could lead to higher medical costs.
In this week's status report, Trang joins host Alex Hogan to discuss why these AI tools are counterintuitive, which could make them even more expensive in the US
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