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Technology in your practice: Why integrate more tech or AI into your workflow?
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 why technology is needed in medical practices.
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