Dr. Adam Rodman

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Dr. Adam Rodman, welcome back to Hard Fork.

Oh, it is a pleasure to be here.

Am I a friend of the show at this point?

Yeah, it's been crazy.

AI in medicine has gone from, well, depending on how you measure it, it's probably the fastest adopted medical technology of all time.

We went from this being super novel, almost no one used AI tools, to this being a routine part of most doctors' weekly practice.

The normies?

Yeah, so the biggest sort of normal doctor technology, which most of your listeners or a good portion of your listeners have encountered are what are called AI scribes.

That's a sort of voice-to-text algorithm that listens to you talk to your patients and then writes a first draft of your note.

And these have gone from like kind of a novel experimental technology to commodity in probably less than two years.

They're everywhere.

Doctors really like them and then patients really like them because they spend more time talking.

And then the second sort of, I'd say,

Normal doctor use case is for decision support.

So there's this one company called Open Evidence that has created a free tool that has gone from, again, zero to crazy numbers of adoption.

I will tell you, younger doctors like my residents use it all the time.

I don't know the actual numbers, but it's probably close to half of U.S.