
Using generative AI for medical consultation summarization
Introduction
Let's imagine a clinic that attends 1,000 medical consultations per month. If each physician or care provider spends at least 20 minutes writing a clear and structured summary of each interaction, that's more than 300 hours spent on documentation alone.
On a monthly basis, that burden multiplies and can easily exceed 700 lost hours—time that could be spent improving the quality of care and serving more patients.
This is where generative AI comes in: technology capable of listening to, processing, and transforming doctor-patient conversations into automatic, accurate summaries ready to be integrated into the electronic health record (EHR).
This solution not only frees staff from repetitive work, but also ensures organized information, minimizes human error, and speeds up patient response times.