Steven Lin

Primary care medicine represents 52% of all care delivered in the United States, but when it comes to AI innovation, it’s been largely left behind.In this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything, Stanford physician Steven Lin, explains how AI could improve healthcare logistics, optimize patient care, and significantly lower costs by reducing the clerical burdens that cost the U.S. healthcare system billions of dollars a year and keep physicians from spending more time with their patients. Learn more with Lin and host, bioengineer and fellow physician, Russ Altman. Listen and subscribe here. Connect With Us:Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything WebsiteConnect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / MastodonConnect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In a captivating discussion, Steven Lin, a family medicine physician and AI implementation expert at Stanford, dives into the balance between AI's benefits and challenges in primary care. He explains how AI scribes can ease documentation burdens, but raises concerns about losing critical clinical thinking. The conversation explores AI’s potential to transform medical training and address the cognitive load for clinicians. Ultimately, Lin emphasizes that while AI can improve patient care efficiency, it cannot resolve the systemic issues plaguing primary care.