I think this is one of the use cases where speech-to-text and (AI) transcription tools would be useful. Of course ideally there'd be two people, one doing the medical stuff and the other then documentation, but health care is expensive enough as it is.
Medical scribes are a thing. Some provider organizations employee people who attend patient encounters and do all the EHR data entry in order to free up clinicians for higher value work. This generally works well, but it is expensive and payers don't directly reimburse for that service.
All the dentists I've ever visited have worked in doctor/nurse pairings. The nurse assists in operations AND is the data entry expert.
I think it's just about bureaucratic faux-economical thinking infringing to doctors workspace cutting overall effectiveness.
It turns out that peach to text is slower than dictating and having a typist type.
The speed at which reports are dictated is incredible and even when familiar with the field it’s hard to understand how the typists are getting it right.
> Of course ideally there'd be two people, one doing the medical stuff and the other then documentation, but health care is expensive enough as it is.
In the 1980s USSR, every doctor actually had a nurse who did the paperwork. And somehow, healthcare was still free.