STAT+: After hospitals, patients get a turn to bring AI into the doctor’s office

Patients are getting used to being recorded in the doctor’s office. More than a quarter of U.S. practices now use AI-based listening tools called ambient scribes, which capture visits in real time and draft clinical notes for clinicians to enter into patients’ medical records.  But what happens when it’s the patient doing the recording? Nearly every patient now has a recording device in their pocket, and commercial large language models have made it easier than ever for them to transcribe and in...