An attorney specializing in employment law discusses artificial intelligence and noncompetes.
For smaller medical practices, (AI) adoption is likely to occur largely behind the scenes, with , and may offer cost savings as companies target industries with tools designed to automate tasks and potentially replace lower-level roles. At the same time, many independent physicians are early adopters of AI for administrative and research tasks, using it to support, but not replace, their own clinical judgment and business decision-making. Here are reasons why small practices could benefit, said Christopher S. Mayer, J.D., an employment law specialist with the firm .
Medical Economics: There’s a dichotomy that takes place in health care, where you have hands-on work with patients, and then a lot of head work that involves physicians and other clinicians getting the education, the training, experience, to recognize conditions. We're already seeing how AI is being used as a tool to supplement that head work.
Christopher S. Mayer, J.D.: Yeah, and I think for small providers, you're not necessarily going to see a lot of public results and layoffs and things like that. What is going to happen is, it's going to be more behind the scenes. And I think small providers may benefit more from the transition into the AI world, as much as anyone. We're seeing that with, say, Anthropic and other generative AI companies. When they go in, they target an industry. More recently, I think it was...
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