{"id":67618,"date":"2025-08-14T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67618\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:34:11","slug":"should-doctors-upend-privacy-protections-to-use-artificial-intelligence-when-handling-patient-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67618\/","title":{"rendered":"Should doctors upend privacy protections to use artificial intelligence when handling patient data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across Australia, GPs are starting to use artificial intelligence to record and transcribe appointments, schedule follow-up appointments, request pathology tests and issue prescriptions. AI \u201cscribes\u201d are becoming increasingly common in medical practices, and Australian companies are at the forefront of the medical scribe industry.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5mmlq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">productivity-enhancing technology<\/a> \u2013 it enables GPs to save time (up to five minutes or more per consult, according to early research) and to concentrate on listening to and connecting with patients.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across Australia, GPs are starting to use artificial intelligence to record and transcribe appointments, schedule follow-up appointments, request&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-67618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}