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Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy
The Australian government has warned about the rising use of AI scribes in doctors' offices, as the federal health department and health regulator consider privacy safeguards. AI scribe tools, which transcribe and summarize patient-doctor conversations, have become popular in the past 18 months.
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