AI Fixed Documentation. Chart Review and Billing Still Drive Up Costs, Matic Founder Writes in Forbes

AI scribing went mainstream fast. Our founder, Dr. Alex Sheppert, built one of the first AI scribes and bet doctors would adopt it. They did.

But in a new piece for Forbes Technology Council, Alex makes the case that scribing was only the easy domino.

Every visit runs on three steps: reading the chart, documenting the visit, and coding the bill. AI has only solved the middle one.

The other two are harder, and higher stakes. A single wrong entry in a chart can get copied forward for years until it reads as fact. And no physician can hold 70,000 possible diagnosis codes in their head, a gap that costs the industry billions a year to catch after the fact.

Alex lays out why those two dominoes are next, why they’re harder to knock down than scribing, and what has to be true for a tool to actually pull it off.

Read the full article on Forbes: AI Knocked Over Medicine’s First Domino: Two Are Still Standing