{"id":208837,"date":"2026-05-05T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/is-it-ok-to-record-your-visit-what-to-know-about-doctors-and-ai-scribes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:50:10","slug":"is-it-ok-to-record-your-visit-what-to-know-about-doctors-and-ai-scribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/is-it-ok-to-record-your-visit-what-to-know-about-doctors-and-ai-scribes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Is it OK to record your visit?&#8217; What to know about doctors and AI scribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/upnext\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-primary-care-privacy\">&#8216;Is it OK to record your visit?&#8217; What to know about doctors and AI scribes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/upnext\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-primary-care-privacy\">https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/upnext\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-primary-care-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 05:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wbur.org\">www.wbur.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Massachusetts for clinical documentation during patient visits to streamline note-taking.<\/li>\n<li>About 28% of U.S. physicians are already using AI for clinical documentation, with most expecting the technology to become more common.<\/li>\n<li>AI scribes at Mass General Brigham allow doctors to focus more on patient interaction, potentially reducing burnout.<\/li>\n<li>Studies show modest time savings of about 16 minutes per day for physicians, but a sense of burden relief is cited as a key reason for reduced stress.<\/li>\n<li>Physicians must obtain patient consent before recording visits, and recorded data is destroyed after use in note generation.<\/li>\n<li>AI-generated notes must be reviewed and proofread by doctors due to potential errors and misinterpretations.<\/li>\n<li>Mass General Brigham is investigating concerns about bias, particularly around equitable access to AI scribe services among all patients.<\/li>\n<li>Patients are advised to ask questions about AI use in their care to understand how it impacts their treatment and privacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Is it OK to record your visit?&#8217; What to know about doctors and AI scribes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/05\/ai-scribes-illustration-1920x1019.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-208837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208839,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208837\/revisions\/208839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}