< + > AI is Not One-Size-Fits-All for Clinicians

Through his work, his podcast, and his social media listening, Joshua Liu, CEO of SeamlessMD has his fingers on the pulse of healthcare. Healthcare IT Today caught up with him at the eHealth 2024 conference to get his take on the latest trends in health IT.

AI is not a Fit for Every Clinician

AI is the most talked about technology in healthcare and although we have come down (slightly) from the extreme peak of hype, in Liu’s opinion, there is still a lot of aspirational statements being made about how AI can be successfully deployed TODAY.

In fact, according to Liu, AI technologies like ambient clinical voice are not a universal fit for every clinician. He cited a recent study by The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) which showed less than half of the physicians who had access to the technology chose to use it. Those that did, found it very helpful, but the majority did not elect to try it.

“Even though physicians are excited to try ambient clinical voice technology, adoption amongst clinicians is mixed,” said Liu.

Device-less Remote Patient Monitoring

Liu is excited about the potential for device-less remote patient monitoring.

“Instead of only serving the 5% of patients with heart failure or COPD, a software-based approach can broaden the audience to oncology patients, surgery, and palliative,” shared Liu. “We have to look beyond RPM as a hardware-based solution.”

Since patients already have access to a smartphone, it makes sense to Liu that more RPM solutions be based on browsers and smartphone technology rather than proprietary (read: expensive) hardware. The goal is access according to Liu, not revenue from an RPM walled garden.

Watch the short interview with Joshua Liu to hear more industry insights.

Learn more about SeamlessMD at https://www.seamless.md/

Check out Lii’s podcast, The Digital Patient at https://www.seamless.md/podcast

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