Physicians spend nearly half their workday on EHR tasks and administrative work, contributing to burnout and reducing time for direct patient care. We present MDwAIstScheduler, a low-cost, belt-worn voice assistant that allows hands-free calendar management during patient encounters. Hidden beneath a lab coat, the device avoids the eye-contact disruptions caused by visible screens or wrist-worn devices. Running on a Raspberry Pi with cloud-based speech recognition and LLM intent extraction, the system lets clinicians simply say 'Schedule a follow-up with Mr. Smith next Tuesday at 2' and automatically creates the calendar event. Our demo show-cases this end-to-end pipeline.
@article{arxiv.2604.16352,
title = {MDwAIstScheduler: A Low-Cost, Voice-Activated Device for Hands-Free Clinical Scheduling},
author = {Diego Mardien and Frank Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16352},
year = {2026}
}
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Accepted into CHI 2026 Workshop: Everyday Wearable for Personalized Health and Well-Being