AI provider tools will probably drive up health care costs. What?

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I’m at the Epic User Group Meeting in Wisconsin. I’m not allowed to post any photos, but please picture a Windows XP-level meadow with inexplicable kites effortlessly flying over a farmhouse and silo; a staircase that looks like a castle turret with a long, blonde, Rapunzel braid hanging down it; and a carpet with a yellow brick road print going down a hallway of offices. All sights I’ve seen at Epic’s famously fantastical Verona campus. 

Scroll below for an overview of the company’s AI ambitions… but only after you’ve read my new story about AI scribes running up your doctor bill.