Clinical responsibility · 5 min read
Dentist Oversight When Using AI-Assisted Audit Tools
What AI can and cannot do in dental audit preparation, and why dentist review and approval must remain central.
What AI assistance can reasonably do
AI-assisted tools can help sort documents, compare billed codes with chart text, highlight records that appear to be missing and draft an organized index. These are clerical and consistency tasks that take staff significant time.
What it should not do
- Make clinical diagnoses or decide whether treatment was appropriate
- Create, alter or backdate clinical records
- Submit anything to a carrier without human approval
- Promise how a carrier will decide
See how CareProof is approaching this
We'll walk you through the planned workflow using synthetic data.
Keeping the dentist in control
CareProof is being designed so every potential issue is presented as a suggestion linked to its source, and nothing is included in a submission package until a dentist has reviewed and approved it. Responsibility for the clinical record remains with the dentist.
This article is general information and is not legal, clinical, regulatory or billing advice. Consult your provincial regulatory authority and professional advisors for guidance specific to your practice.