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Board discusses informing patients when AI-assisted clinical notes include recorded conversations
Summary
Board members debated informed-consent practices after an anecdote at an FSBPT meeting about a patient who discovered long-retained recordings used to generate clinical notes. Members recommended informing patients and limiting background recording retention; no formal policy change was adopted.
At a recent meeting of the Department of Public Health board, members discussed patient informed consent and privacy concerns related to recordings used to generate AI-assisted clinical notes.
The conversation began when a board member (Speaker 1) relayed an anecdote from an FSBPT meeting in Spokane about a patient who discovered her physical therapist had been recording visits and that the recording could be accessed years…
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