How AI is Changing Access to Medicine
Pavelle shares that Doctronic is meant to optimize a patient's experience with their doctor, not replace it or nefariously store medical data. He explained, 'Our memory is totally private. It never gets shared with any of the AI providers or anything. We have our own AI, we have our own memory and obviously if you want to delete it, it's gone forever. So you don't have to worry about your data getting out into the public anywhere. It's all HIPAA-secured and safe, and it's encrypted.'
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