Live Webinar: Integrating AI Into Your Practice-2026 Webinar: Foot & Ankle Focus: Integrating AI Into Your Practice

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The AOFAS hosted a Foot and Ankle Focus webinar on integrating AI into orthopedic practice, moderated by Dr. Iyer with speakers Drs. Kadakia, Hamid, and Gross. The session emphasized practical, near-term uses of AI and longer-term opportunities, especially to reduce documentation burden, improve patient flow, and enhance clinical decision-making.<br /><br />Dr. Kadakia focused on AI “scribes” and generative tools to streamline clinic and operative workflows. He argued that charting drives burnout and reduces patient trust when surgeons spend visits facing screens. AI tools can listen to natural patient conversations, generate structured notes, reduce dictation errors, and save substantial time (he estimated 2–3 hours per week). He highlighted benefits over templates and copy-paste (including medicolegal risks), and noted AI is typically cheaper and more stable than human scribes. He demonstrated using tools to draft SOAP notes, pre-authorization letters, op notes, and even slide decks, stressing the need for HIPAA-compliant platforms and brief clinician review for accuracy. Integration is often as simple as copying AI output into the EMR.<br /><br />Dr. Hamid discussed AI-driven clinic triage: many patients scheduled with surgeons don’t need surgery, wasting time and contributing to burnout. He described how specialty-specific models—trained with deeper orthopedic decision logic—could better match patients to the right surgeon and appointment urgency. He also noted potential future uses such as patient “segmentation” to predict visit length and tailor services.<br /><br />Dr. Gross presented an AI model for limb-salvage risk prediction in diabetic foot ulcer patients, using EHR data and temporal trends (e.g., worsening labs over time) to predict amputation type and timing, aiming to trigger earlier interventions. The Q&A covered summarizing large medical records (possible but error-prone unless chunked or paid tools are used) and limited but emerging applications for coding support.

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Moderator: Amiethab A. Aiyer, MD
Faculty: Anish R. Kadakia, MD; Kamran S. Hamid, MD, MPH; Christopher E. Gross, MD

This webinar will focus on the different ways artificial intelligence (AI) can be incorporated into everyday practice, including patient care and clinical workflow, optimizing patient triaging, and guiding clinical decision making.

At the conclusion of this webinar, you will be able to:

Explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to optimize clinical and patient care workflows
Examine the role of AI in improving documentation efficiency and reducing overall clinical workload
Demonstrate practical applications of AI in patient triage to enhance clinic efficiency and quality
Discuss how AI-driven risk assessment tools can support clinical decision-making and improve patient outcomes

Keywords

AOFAS Foot and Ankle Focus webinar

AI in orthopedic practice

AI scribe for clinical documentation

generative AI SOAP note drafting

HIPAA-compliant AI tools in healthcare

EMR/EHR workflow integration

clinic triage and patient routing with AI

orthopedic decision-support models

diabetic foot ulcer limb-salvage risk prediction

amputation timing prediction using temporal EHR trends