AI can take notes for your doctor. One Kansas hospital hopes that leaves more focus on the...

The University of Kansas Health System is rolling out AI technology to help reduce clerical work and help patients better understand medical diagnosis. But AI can have racial disparities when it comes to who it can understand.
After that last patient visit of the day, doctors and nurses can face a daunting pile of paperwork they couldn’t get to during a busy schedule.

“We do have some providers that are spending as much as two hours, basically, after hours, working on those,” said Dr. Gregory Ator, chief medical informatics officer at The University of Kansas Health System.

A recently announced partnership between KU Health System and Abridge — a medical technology company — aims to help alleviate the paperwork burden with artificial intelligence.