A primary health clinic in Yerington is testing a new A.I. tool that’s a big help for physicians.
DAX Copilot Two is an ambient listening A.I. tool that records the back-and-forth conversation between a physician and patient and is able to act the same way a medical scribe would keep a record, except this A.I. can categorize identify key points in your conversation by listening through a smartphone that has been disconnected from any cellular or Wi-Fi service and is directly connected to your physician’s laptop.
DAX Copilot Two not only records the exam, but logs everything under different categories that create an in-depth report of your visit. If you mention something like a parent having diabetes, DAX will put it under Family History or if you mention that you were previously a smoker, it will automatically add it to your social history. At the end of the examination, DAX Copilot creates an in-depth summary of your session with your physician to review.
“So far we've been kind of tinkering around with this for a few weeks, or at least I have, and really just launched it kind of widespread here in the last week. But so far it does seem to be working pretty well and I think I'm optimistic, like I said earlier, that it's going to take some of that charting, documentation, administrative burden off the providers so they can actually focus on the medicine," says Dr. Kaleb Wartgow Chief of Medical Staff and Primary Care Physician at South Lyon Medical Center.
Physicians face a growing amount of administrative work that requires them to break away from patients or they are unable to attend to that paperwork in between clients and need to keep all of the information from their day in their head.
And with the apprehension towards A.I. Dr. Wartgow wants to reassure the community that this is a tool to assist the doctors, not replace them.
“I know there's some apprehension around AI. I would just try and reassure patients, people in the community, that this is a tool. It's there to help your provider be the provider and not cause them to burn out because they're dealing with stuff that isn't the medicine.”
