Designing for Health: Spencer Dorn, MD | Vice Chair and Professor of Medicine at UNC | Balancing technology, data overload, and patient-centered care

Nordic Chief Medical Officer Craig Joseph, MD, talks with Spencer Dorn, MD, Vice Chair and Professor of Medicine at UNC. They discuss Spencer’s career path, changes in medical note writing, and the value of slowing down to create better decision-making and deeper patient connections. They also talk about AI, its growing involvement in medicine and how AI could present opportunities to rethink and innovate in clinical documentation and workflow. Show Notes: [00:00] Intros [00:55] Spencer’s background [02:44] Technology’s role in healthcare [07:04] Benefits and challenges of electronic health records [10:04] Importance of concise notes [16:12] Thinking fast and slow [19:22] Balancing efficiency with creating space in healthcare systems [22:04] AI in medicine [29:12] How AI could change clinical documentation [33:17] Spencer’s favorite well-designed thing [35:02] Outros For a full transcript, click here