#ai-assisted-documentation

#ai-assisted-documentation

An AI-informed supervision is constantly reminded to treat speech as metaphorical and not literal, since humans, including therapy patients, are very good poets and very bad reporters. AI never forgets to inquire why at this moment this thought occurred to the patient. It never forgets to consider projective identification -the communication of an intolerable feeling by getting the therapist to feel it. It never forgets to consider a lose-lose comment during a frame deviation.

A treatment plan must be present in every visit note. Diagnoses listed in the chart must exactly match the billing codes. At the same time, patients expect and deserve our undivided attention. But balancing genuine human connection with the ever-growing checklist of documentation requirements is nearly impossible. Add to that the reality that we are people too, with families and demanding lives outside the office, and the strain becomes clear.