AI Medical Assistants: Enhancing Patient Care & Workflow Efficiency

Administrative burdens in healthcare continue to grow, with physicians spending nearly 40% of their time on documentation rather than patient care. Artificial intelligence (AI) medical assistants are emerging as powerful tools to streamline these tasks, enhancing efficiency while reducing burnout.

The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians hosted a webinar that explored how AI can support family physicians by summarizing medical records, auto-filling forms, and generating clinical notes. Our expert speaker, Faraz Ghoddusi, MD, FAAFP, also discussed the key considerations for accuracy, security, and ethics, along with real-world examples of AI implementation in healthcare settings.

Following this presentation, learners will have a practical understanding of how AI medical assistants can improve workflows, mitigate administrative overload, and support better patient outcomes.

AI Medical Assistants: Enhancing Patient Care & Workflow Efficiency

Learning Objectives
  1. Define what AI medical assistants are and their role in clinical workflows when seeing and supporting patients.
  2. Recognize the administrative challenges that AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) can address, such as documentation overload and inefficiencies.
  3. Describe key AI capabilities, including medical record summarization, auto-filling forms, and generating clinical notes.
  4. Evaluate the benefits and limitations of AI medical assistants, particularly in terms of accuracy, security, ethical considerations, and potential impact on patient outcomes.
  5. Assess real-world case studies showcasing AI adoption in healthcare and how it can enhance patient care.
  6. Discuss practical considerations for integrating AI medical assistants into clinical practice while maintaining a patient-centered approach.

About the Speaker

Dr. Ghoddusi is a highly experienced family physician who has worked on the national level to help with healthcare policy and public health. His passion for helping others led him down the path of medicine into a career that allows him to provide his patients with high-quality healthcare. He brings a whole-body approach to medicine to find comfortable and effective solutions for everyone, focusing on wellness rather than disease. 

Dr. Ghoddusi, a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is currently serving as the executive director and chief medical officer at Healthy Oregon, a non-profit based in Tigard, OR, while teaching as faculty in the departments of family medicine as well as medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University.

Questions

For questions about this program, please contact Director of Education Erin Jech or call 800.742.7327.