Company begins selling AI system to automate physician note-taking during exams

Note-taking is often listed as one of the most time-consuming parts of a physician's job, but a company is now hoping to make things easier. Speech software company Nuance announced that it's rolling out a new AI system — called Nuance DAX — that would allow technology wired into walls to listen in on conversations in doctors' offices and take notes. Beyond transcribing the conversation, however, the technology — developed in partnership with Microsoft — will also build a narrative of the patient's case, and will allow physicians to use voice commands to fill in specific fields within health records. The system is currently available only for a few specialties, such as orthopedics and dermatology, but a handful of hospitals, including Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, have already expressed their intention to use it.