{"id":36304,"date":"2026-07-15T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36304"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:18:47","slug":"writing-patient-messages-with-ai-time-saver-or-time-drain-todays-hospitalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/writing-patient-messages-with-ai-time-saver-or-time-drain-todays-hospitalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Patient Messages With AI: Time-Saver or Time Drain?\u2014<em>Today&#8217;s Hospitalist<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=e10ad66fc0&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014A Dartmouth study found that physicians may spend more time editing AI-drafted responses to patients than it would take to write them because <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> errors, irrelevant information, and a lack <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> key follow-up questions. The team created a training method that improved AI's accuracy by 33% and reduced editing by 26%. \"I don't foresee a time when the portal can respond to a patient without a clinician editing it first,\" said Tim Burdick, an associate pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> community and family medicine. (Similar coverage in <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=8bc79c4383&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=8bc79c4383&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"7ab25904-bb8d-4498-b674-6b05b8bd9d6d\">Noah Intelligence<\/a>. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=e10ad66fc0&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014A Dartmouth study found that physicians may spend more time editing AI-drafted responses to patients than it would take to write them because <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> errors, irrelevant information, and a lack <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> key follow-up questions. The team created a training method that improved AI&#8217;s accuracy by 33% and reduced editing by 26%. &#8220;I don&#8217;t foresee a time when the portal can respond to a patient without a clinician editing it first,&#8221; said Tim Burdick, an associate pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> community and family medicine. (Similar coverage in <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=8bc79c4383&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=8bc79c4383&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"7ab25904-bb8d-4498-b674-6b05b8bd9d6d\">Noah Intelligence<\/a>. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9ry","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36305,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions\/36305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}