PSA: AI is everywhere. Check your medical records OFTEN.
Almost every office I go to is now required by corporate to use AI transcribers. Regardless of what CCHFreedom says, that use is buried in the paperwork you sign before every visit. It's usually in the Privacy notices and consent sections. If you don't or can't read them, you don't notice it.
Besides the ENTIRE privacy and data mining problem, it's an immediate issue for every patient.
It is not a doctor's choice. If they want to keep their jobs, they do what corporate says.
Yes, I can (sometimes) opt-out. No, they do NOT always have to treat me if I do. The paperwork insinuates that it's like any other TOU: if you don't like the rules, find another provider.
For y'all healthy-ish people, YOU don't have a problem. You will go somewhere else. If your records are wrong, you can probably sort it out. You might see two doctors a year.
That's great!
I see half a dozen a month. Sometimes more.
There are maybe a handful of doctors in three counties that I can see for some disorders. I may have to go across the state for a minor surgery... when I find a doc and get my insurance on board.
I do not have the luxury of seeing a different rheumatologist with another group if I want to. Also the Other Group also uses AI transcribers now.
Check your damn records.
This is for YOUR safety but also so insurance has less to deny.
Across just two or three office visits, I have become a 54(?) year old man who is in my 30s and also AFAB, and apparently I injured my ribs in a fall, necessitating an orthopaedic hand therapist. (WRIST, not ribs.)
Yeah, yeah, "but- but- the doctors are really at fault!!! They're supposed to read it!!!" With what fucking time.
You know who notices that? My insurance company. Who has all the fucking time in the world.
The REASON these AI transcribers are required by the company is to "save time." Because doctors are only given a few minutes for notes because insurance companies want to push more patients into exceedingly small appointment times.
So INSTEAD OF TYPING THE CORRECT THING THE FIRST TIME, they now have to use these stupid fucking AI programs to write things *incorrectly,* GO BACK, re-read everything in SECONDS, look for errors that could be anywhere, and fix it.
And if they don't, that isn't the AIs fault! It's THEIRS!
Companies do this to "maximise profits." I bet insurance companies push it to get more revenue in copays, and also because it increases chances of total denial of payment. They all make huge profits while WE suffer.
I don't know why there's a constant problem with doctors quitting or people going into any other fucking field.
