02/17/2026    Lawrence Kosova, DPM

Podiatry’s Future with AI as the New Market Force (David Laurino, DPM)

Dr. Laurino, an interesting assessment on AI. For
those that still question to start something as
simple as an AI scribe in their office, take note.
Kaiser Permanente did a rollout of AI assists
across 40 hospitals and 600 medical offices. They
have 24,000 physicians using AI for patient
encounter scribing. This should be eye opening.
Increasing efficiency, decrease burden and
increasing ROI should be a goal of every office.
AI call centers are being integrated as we speak
and platform integration is being synced. They
will do all the scheduling, handle patient calls
and put those notes into the chart. You just write
a script of questions/ answers and it will handle
the rest. Probably not a great time to be a
radiologist. AI is getting really good at that.

In the AI, world we get asked about physician
replacement. But with around 40 million people
using a chat box to ask medical questions daily,
how many of those patients are now not coming into
your office? There are already AI models that are
coming to market that will use a phone to scan
your face, give you important information like
blood pressure and predictive analysis on your
current state of health, use the information from
your wearable and sync it to your chart. They also
want a DNA sample for something like predictive
cancer in your body. They will use an AI doctor to
do the interview and start the exam.

Aren’t 80% of our diagnoses from listening to the
patient? I have been lecturing and "live" in the
office with AI for 2 years. Patients think it's a
huge benefit. They like when I am just looking at
them and examining them. They like the extra time
I can give them. I like the time it saves.
Patients love getting a patient summary and the
front office loves doing it with a push of a
button. To me it's bout increasing efficiency and
expectations. In podiatry, we need to mostly
touch our patients to examine them. I don't think
we will be replaced.

Lawrence Kosova, DPM, Chicago, IL

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02/17/2026    Lawrence Kosova, DPM

Podiatry’s Future with AI as the New Market Force (David Laurino, DPM)

Dr. Laurino, an interesting assessment on AI. For
those that still question to start something as
simple as an AI scribe in their office, take note.
Kaiser Permanente did a rollout of AI assists
across 40 hospitals and 600 medical offices. They
have 24,000 physicians using AI for patient
encounter scribing. This should be eye opening.
Increasing efficiency, decrease burden and
increasing ROI should be a goal of every office.
AI call centers are being integrated as we speak
and platform integration is being synced. They
will do all the scheduling, handle patient calls
and put those notes into the chart. You just write
a script of questions/ answers and it will handle
the rest. Probably not a great time to be a
radiologist. AI is getting really good at that.

In the AI, world we get asked about physician
replacement. But with around 40 million people
using a chat box to ask medical questions daily,
how many of those patients are now not coming into
your office? There are already AI models that are
coming to market that will use a phone to scan
your face, give you important information like
blood pressure and predictive analysis on your
current state of health, use the information from
your wearable and sync it to your chart. They also
want a DNA sample for something like predictive
cancer in your body. They will use an AI doctor to
do the interview and start the exam.

Aren’t 80% of our diagnoses from listening to the
patient? I have been lecturing and "live" in the
office with AI for 2 years. Patients think it's a
huge benefit. They like when I am just looking at
them and examining them. They like the extra time
I can give them. I like the time it saves.
Patients love getting a patient summary and the
front office loves doing it with a push of a
button. To me it's bout increasing efficiency and
expectations. In podiatry, we need to mostly
touch our patients to examine them. I don't think
we will be replaced.

Lawrence Kosova, DPM, Chicago, IL