Comment by jmcgough
3 days ago
Varies depending on the field and company. Sounds like you may be speaking from your own experiences?
In medicine, we're already seeing productivity gains from AI charting leading to an expectation that providers will see more patients per hour.
> In medicine, we're already seeing productivity gains from AI charting leading to an expectation that providers will see more patients per hour.
And not, of course, an expectation of more minutes of contact per patient, which would be the better outcome optimization for both provider and patient. Gotta pump those numbers until everyone but the execs are an assembly line worker in activity and pay.
I don't think that more minutes of contact is better for anybody.
As a patient, I want to spend as little time with a doctor as possible and still receive maximally useful treatment.
As a doctor, I would want to extract maximal comp from insurance which I don't think is tied time spent with the patient, rather to a number of different treatments given.
Also please note that in most western world medical personnel is currently massively overprovisioned and so reducing their overall workload would likely lead to better result per treatment given.
> leading to an expectation that providers will see more patients per hour
> reducing their overall workload
what?