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Matt Ewend

Matt Ewend, MD, FACS, is Chief Clinical Officer of UNC Health and President of UNC Physicians, and a neurosurgeon/neuro-oncologist at UNC.

Oct 7, 2026

2:02
... changed the way clinicians are going about their workday?
2:06
Yeah.
2:07
So we, we've been troubled, as many of my colleagues have, about the, the increasing burdens on providing clinical care and how the joy of caring for patients and the contact with patients was being lost as we added layers and layers of electronic medical record duties and charting and other requirements.
2:26
With the advent of AI scribing and now with AI summarization tools, this is the first time in my career I really feel like this technology is making things better for our clinicians.
2:37
So we started with implementing AI scribing, and many of my colleagues around the country have done the same thing.
2:43
We're just this month approaching the three millionth note transcribed by our caregivers, so really wonderful uptake among, uh, physicians and clinicians and medical students and, and, and folks.
2:56
And what we see with that is just the ability to refocus on the patient.

6 MINS LATER

9:07
For UNC, with the difference between employed and independent practices, physicians, clinicians, can you kind of spell out that dynamic in the, uh, triangular area?

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