Government Warning

AI Scribes Are Listening: What Patients Should Know About Privacy Risks You might have noticed your doctor typing less during appointments and instead glancing at a screen, sometimes with a small microphone on the desk. Increasingly, that shift involves an AI scribe—software that listens to the conversation between you and your clinician, transcribes it in real time, and generates clinical notes automatically. The technology promises to save physicians hours of paperwork and let them focus more on you. But it also raises serious privacy questions, and governments are starting to take notice. ...

AI Scribes Are Listening In on Your Doctor Visits: New Privacy Warning and What to Do You sit down in the exam room and start describing your symptoms. The doctor listens, asks questions, and types. But more and more, that typing isn’t just the doctor’s fingers on a keyboard—it’s an artificial intelligence system transcribing your entire conversation and automatically generating medical notes. ...