VIDEO: For overworked physicians, ‘there is a lot of help coming’ in the form of AI

NEW ORLEANS — AI can be used in multiple ways to help reduce clinician burden, but human oversight is still needed, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

“There is a lot of help coming,” Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA, an associate professor of medicine, vice president of clinical informatics and chief medical information officer at the University of California, Irvine, told Healio. “The clinician workload can be reduced by using some of these AI tools, such as ambient documentation tools, augmented response technology to answer patient messages [and] introducing bots to clinical queries.”

However, Pandita said, “we always want a human in the loop. We don’t want these tools to be autonomous at any point yet.”

Reference:

• Pandita D, et al. How AI can reduce clinician burden. Presented at: ACP Internal Medicine Meeting; April 3-5, 2025; New Orleans.

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Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA, an associate professor of medicine, vice president of clinical informatics and chief medical information officer at the University of California, Irvine, can be reached at primarycare@healio.com.