{"id":220590,"date":"2025-10-13T03:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220590\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:31:15","slug":"mass-general-brigham-turning-to-ai-to-ease-primary-care-doctor-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220590\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass General Brigham turning to AI to ease primary care doctor shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mass General Brigham has turned to artificial intelligence to address\u00a0a critical shortage of primary care doctors<\/a>, launching an AI app that questions patients, reviews medical records, and produces a list of potential diagnoses.<\/p>\n

Called \u201cCare Connect,\u201d the platform was launched on Sept. 9 for the 15,000 MGB patients\u00a0without a primary care doctor<\/a>. A chatbot that is available 24\/7 interviews the patient, then sets up a telehealth appointment with a physician in as little as half an hour. MGB is among the first health care systems nationally to roll out the app.<\/p>\n

Several primary care doctors at MGB, however, described AI as a sideshow, a distraction from what they contend is the real solution to the shortage: providing the pay and working conditions that will attract more primary care physicians to the state\u2019s largest health system and keep them from leaving.<\/p>\n

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