#63 - When AI Writes Back To Patient Messages
AI can draft a patient portal reply in seconds, but the hard part starts when a clinician has to decide whether that draft is safe, accurate, and appropriate for a real human being. We unpack new research on AI-generated portal messages and what providers actually change, from the small administrative tweaks that pile up to the high-stakes clinical edits that demand careful judgment.
We talk through how these systems work in practice: categorizing incoming portal messages, using category-specific prompts, and pulling context from the electronic health record to generate a personalized…
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