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- You’re doing that thing where you bunch your voice in the same paragraph as the subject’s voice. Look at our and other similar publications’ articles for stylistic direction. We’re going to get the style down. Just keep working at it.
- Em dash usage that we discussed earlier is still incorrect for our style. Easy fix.
- I challenge you to make your necessary edits here, take a breather, and then read the article through the lens of a reader. This will help.
In a world where artificial intelligence is becoming a more common tool in health care, from electronic health records to AI scribes that document patient visits, former Mississippi State Medical Association President and family physician Dr. Jennifer Bryan is bringing a new voice to the conversation.
Bryan cautions that while AI offers promise, it also poses risks when errors enter patient records. Those concerns have led her to create “Quiet Signal Technologies” and develop a governance platform designed as a safety net around AI use.
Bryan has firsthand experience with AI scribes in her own exam room. The technology, she said, has saved significant time and allowed her to focus more directly on patients. “The time that it has saved me, and the return of looking at my patient as opposed to the keyboard, has been immense,” she said during an interview on Mary Wieden and You. (Bunching your voice with subject’s voice)
Still, she cautioned that physicians must edit and verify records daily, because errors are inevitable. “It’s never going to be perfect,” Bryan explained. (Again)
Inaccuracies can mislead both doctors and patients. “The medical record needs to be accurate. It matters,” she warned. (Again)
Those gaps in recordkeeping were underscored during the interview, when Wieden described a hospital stay that never appeared in her physician’s file. Bryan noted that those kinds of omissions –and the conclusions that AI software can sometimes insert automatically–make governance essential. (Em dash usage not in line with our style. Make sure you have spaces on both sides. Correct usage: “kinds of omissions – and the conclusion that AI software can sometimes insert automatically – make…”)
“Many times, it’ll make conclusions that are not accurate, and in some records, even automatically put that on the history,” she said.
Her company’s platform, known as Shimmer Frame, integrates with existing medical record systems to provide oversight. It flags whether information comes from AI or a human, identifies the source, and highlights confidence levels behind entries—ensuring that AI never overrides the judgment of a credentialed provider. (Em dash usage)
“These inaccuracies pollute charts, confuse patients, and place physicians at risk of liability,” Bryan said. “We need a process to filter these errors at the bedside, before they become part of the permanent record.”
According to Bryan, as many as 88% of health systems nationwide lack proper AI governance. That gap, she argued, makes safeguards all the more urgent to prevent false diagnoses and unnecessary anxiety for patients. “We don’t want the patient seeing things at home that would scare them, that are not real,” she said. (Again)
Bryan added that Mississippi is already helping lead the national discussion. In June, its delegation pushed forward national policy on AI governance that was unanimously approved by more than 700 physicians at the American Medical Association’s annual meeting. Bryan, elected to the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health, said her company’s work reflects those same principles.
Even as Shimmer Frame moves through early testing and development, Bryan said the larger goal remains clear. “Technology is making our lives better—but we have to integrate it responsibly,” she said. “Patients deserve accuracy, Physicians deserve protection, and healthcare deserves governance.” (Again)
