STAT+: After hospitals, patients get a turn to bring AI into the doctor’s office

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More than a quarter of U.S. medical practices now use AI-powered ambient scribes that automatically transcribe doctor-patient conversations and draft clinical notes. But patients themselves are increasingly turning the tables, using their own devices and commercially available AI tools to record visits and create transcripts, raising new questions about whose technology shapes the medical record and who controls the documentation of care. The shift marks a reversal: as hospitals embed AI scribes into clinical workflows, patients are gaining their own technological leverage to verify what gets written about their health.