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Technology in your practice: Are new AI tools safe?
Author(s)Todd Shryock
Technology and AI offerings for doctors are exploding. Should you integrate more tech into your practice?
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Medical Economics spoke with Steven Waldren, MD, chief medical informatics officers, AAFP, about how practice should approach technology integration and what he’s seeing work at practices. In this episode, Waldren talks about the safety of new AI tools.
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