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Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672
As far as I’m concerned, using AI of any sort inside of a doctor’s office is a grave violation of HIPAA
Let me tell you about how medical transcriptionists used to do it: Sister in law was one, she didn’t seem to care about HIPAA too much, she and all her colleagues did lose their jobs about a 15-20 years ago when AI transcription software took over their jobs, but before that she was frequently given jobs because her predecessors made serious mistakes in their transcriptions.
If she didn’t care about HIPAA, I’m glad she lost the job lol.
If only we could fire AI too.
She’d tell stories (without the names)- many of her colleagues would get deep into the personal details…
I don’t think that’s a hipaa violation, but I’m no expert.
EMTs, etc, do that too. You’d go crazy if you couldn’t.
I work in the digital handling of PHI (HIPAA regulated) it’s pretty insane what is considered HIPAA protected in that world.
In practice, yeah, real people can’t just be all "oh, that’s a national secret, I can’t tell you anything about my work or the weird worms people had in weirder places…