Ambient AI medical scribes are about the easiest — and hottest — way into health care for AI-based startups. The area is both well within the capabilities of AI tools and also — theoretically — doesn’t directly affect patient care. Ahead of a meeting on digital health tools later this week, FDA officials appeared to acknowledge risks to patients that could be instigated by errors in automatically generated medical notes, but the tools fall through cracks in health tech regulation and appear unlikely to be burdened by regulations anytime soon. While the number of health systems looking into contracting with an AI scribe company is growing, analysts anticipate that the bubble will eventually burst and the field will contract.
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Source: https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/19/generative-ai-ambient-medical-scribes-market-consolidation/