{"id":1273,"date":"2025-07-23T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:52:31","slug":"reclaiming-the-primary-care-consultation-for-patients-and-clinicians-is-ai-enabled-ambient-voice-technology-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/2025\/07\/23\/reclaiming-the-primary-care-consultation-for-patients-and-clinicians-is-ai-enabled-ambient-voice-technology-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0141076825136085\">Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0discusses the potential role of AI-enabled ambient voice technology in healthcare and the implications for doctors and patients. While interest in ambient voice technology , particularly in primary care, continues to grow, evidence regarding its feasibility, acceptability and real-world impact in primary care remains limited. This includes data on cost, staff training and implementation (including integration with current electronic medical record systems).<\/p>\n<p>Questions also remain about how ambient voice technology\u00a0 handles complex consultations, including with non-native English speakers, and its broader integration into routine practice. As ambient voice technology\u00a0 develops, further research is needed to assess its usability, acceptability, feasibility, cost-effectiveness and unintended effects on clinical interactions and decision-making. If demonstrated to be effective, ambient voice technology\u00a0 could become a transformative tool in advancing the government\u2019s 10 Year Health Plan for England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine\u00a0discusses the potential role of AI-enabled ambient voice technology in healthcare and the implications for doctors and patients. While interest in ambient voice technology , particularly in primary care, continues to grow, evidence regarding its feasibility, acceptability and real-world impact in primary care remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308111],"tags":[20750],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs","tag-primary-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}