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AI Scribes: Can Technology Do More Than Free Doctors From Data Entry?

The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI)

March 17, 2025

"The goal of the [REDUCE] project is to think not just about documentation, but to get beyond it and to think about the ways in which the entire visit can be quantified, documented, and reused in support of patient care and quality," Dr. Kevin Johnson said.

Dr. Kevin Johnson Awarded NIH Director's Pioneer Award

National Institutes of Health

September 1, 2023

Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS was awarded the NIH Director's Pioneer Award under the "High-Risk, High-Reward Research" program funded by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. Established in 2004, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award challenges investigators at all career levels to pursue new research directions and develop groundbreaking, high-impact approaches to a broad area of biomedical, behavioral, or social science. Dr. Johnson will apply the NIH grant to a research project titled Helping Doctors Doctor: Using AI to Automate Documentation and "De-Autonomate" Health Care.