Doctors at Yale New Haven Health and Hartford HealthCare — Connecticut's two largest health systems — say a new artificial intelligence tool is transforming how they interact with patients during appointments. The tool, called Abridge, records conversations between doctors and patients during clinical visits and then uses a large language model to produce after-visit summaries. Steven Zweibel, a physician at Hartford HealthCare and the medical director of innovation at the organization's Heart and Vascular Institute, said Abridge has freed up his attention during appointments so that he can focus more energy on patient care, instead of furiously typing notes.
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