Most Clinical Documentation Is Still Unstructured or Handwritten | Dr Linda Chen

Legacy records, conversational notes, and manual data entry radiologists should not be doing. Book Ian for your event → iankhan.com | booking@iankhan.com SUMMARY Dr Linda Chen, a diagnostic radiologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center, describes the reality of unstructured and handwritten clinical documentation inherited from legacy systems, the manual data entry burden on radiologists, and why imaging AI needs far more specialised training methods and data than text understanding did. KEY FINDINGS • Clinical documentation still largely unstructured and conversational • Significant volumes of handwritten records from legacy systems • Manual data entry that radiologists should not be doing • Imaging AI requiring far more specialised training methods • Data availability as the constraint on building it • Text understanding as the comparatively solved problem • Radiologists needing retraining to interact with AI-surfaced information GUEST Dr. Linda Chen, Diagnostic Radiologist, Virginia Mason Medical Center FULL TRANSCRIPT iankhan.com/futurist/linda-chen-clinical-documentation-radiology Recorded at RSNA 2025 for The Futurist. ──────────────────── ABOUT IAN KHAN — HEALTHCARE AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER Most AI keynotes end with a better understanding. Mine end with a measured readiness score and a ninety-day plan. Your leadership team is assessed before the event, the room sees its own collective result live, and every attendee leaves with a ninety-day plan they helped build. Every year I