AI Scribes in Doctors' Offices: Australian Privacy Warning Highlights Risks for Patients
AI Scribes in Doctors’ Offices: Australian Privacy Warning Highlights Risks for Patients If you’ve visited a GP or specialist recently, there’s a growing chance that your conversation was being recorded and transcribed by an AI tool. These programs—commonly called AI scribes—listen to the clinical encounter, generate a draft medical note, and save it to a patient’s record. They promise to free doctors from hours of typing and let them focus on you. But a recent warning from the Australian government suggests the privacy trade-off may be far larger than most patients realise. ...