Jennifer Bryan, M.D.

08/30/2025

Sincerely appreciate the renewed attention on nutrition in health care. CMS already covers medical nutrition therapy for diabetes, kidney disease, and obesity counseling, but that's just a start.

Doctors know nutrition matters, yet pretending we can do everything alone dismisses the expertise of dietitians and nutritionists. These colleagues are essential, but patients too often lack access or coverage to see them.

If we're serious about prevention and public health, CMS and insurers should expand coverage so evidence-based, team-based nutrition care is truly available. Physicians want to fully utilize our medical support teams to give patients the nutrition guidance they deserve.

08/28/2025

Grateful for the opportunity to join SuperTalk Mississippi and Gerard Gibert today to talk about the future of AI in healthcare.

As a family physician, I’ve seen both where AI can help and where it can harm. That bedside perspective matters as these tools move deeper into medicine.

Through Quiet Signal Technologies, we’re working to ensure that patients and physicians are always part of the conversation as healthcare innovation evolves.

🎥 Watch the full segment here:

Dr. Jennifer Bryan(Founder/Owner - Quiet Signal Technologies) stops by the SuperTalk Studio to break down how she's working to build an A.I. tool to take som...

08/27/2025

🚦In medicine we all have lanes. A neurosurgeon doesn’t step into the cath lab to place a cardiac stent, and a family doctor doesn’t start hanging chemotherapy because even though we all carry a license… our training, privileging, and accountability are different. Many nurse practitioners also have defined specialties like pediatrics, psych, women’s health and that differentiation is what makes the team safe.

🫣What AI does today is ignore those lanes. It sees a login, not a license. If I’m a dermatology NP, it may suggest a brain MRI for “seizures” when a patient faints after a procedure. If I’m a radiologist, it might hand me a chemotherapy plan when I am interpreting a mammogram. Technically a doctor has broad legal scope, but no system of care actually works that way. We govern ourselves by specialty, by privileging, by payer rules because safety depends on it.

🚫 The insight here is simple but overlooked: AI will not respect boundaries unless we build them in. We need credential-governed invocation, so the AI only runs inside the lane of the person using it and according to what they are credentialed or privileged to do, and falls back to human judgment when it’s outside. That’s not just a technical feature, it’s how we keep trust in medicine while we integrate AI.

✅ Without governance, AI is a ventriloquist’s puppet. It can impersonate anyone in the room or outside of it for that matter. With governance, it’s more like a smart and personalized clinical assistant. It can only act under the credentialed scope it’s authorized for. That’s part of how we preserve trust in medicine while integrating AI into patient care. We define the lane while fully embracing and harnessing innovation to best serve our patients. ⭐️

08/24/2025

I’ve been honored to serve on the Mississippi Legislative Insurance Study Committee as we look closely at whether GLP-1 medications (like Ozempic and Wegovy) should be added to the state employee health plan.

These are not easy questions. On one hand, these medications can be life-changing for people with serious health risks such as heart disease and diabetes. On the other hand, the cost to the plan is significant, and every decision we make has to balance access with sustainability.

In my comments, I suggested that one way forward may be to start with high-risk patients first, track the outcomes, and re-evaluate as more data and eventually lower-cost generics become available.

I’m thankful to work alongside thoughtful colleagues on this committee who are weighing the evidence and putting people first. Mississippi has some of the toughest health challenges in the nation, but careful, step-by-step policy decisions can make a real difference over time.

You can read the Magnolia Tribune’s coverage of our recent meeting here:

Obesity and diabetes rates in Mississippi are near the highest in the U.S.

07/25/2025

Honored to be featured by WLBT, sharing the importance of addressing AI-suggested diagnostic errors, or “hallucinations”, in electronic health records. This issue impacts real patients, real clinicians, and real outcomes.

Proud to advocate for transparent, clinician-reviewed AI tools that prioritize patient safety and accuracy in healthcare.

Grateful for the opportunity to highlight solutions and ongoing efforts.

You may have noticed your doctor using artificial intelligence to help transcribe your office visit, but there are behind the scenes uses of the technology that are raising red flags for both you and the doctors.

05/17/2025

I’ve been thinking about a specific kind of AI inaccuracy…
small, confident distortions that slip into high-stakes records.
I call them microhallucinations.

What happens when AI errors are subtle enough to go unnoticed, but confident enough to be believed? And are people mistaking undeniably informed AI output for INFALLIBLE output? Because there’s a big difference and it’s rampant.

05/13/2025

AI is changing how we document, diagnose, and deliver care. As a family physician, I’ve seen firsthand both the incredible potential and the quiet risks.

Technology can help us reduce burnout, support clinical reasoning, and increase access to care. But it must also preserve what matters most: human judgment, clinical authorship, and trust…and then build from that foundation.

Ethical AI isn’t a future concept. It’s a current responsibility. And in medicine, it begins right here at the bedside.

04/04/2025

Today I filed my first patent.

It’s called AeonFrame—a new kind of system that preserves symbolic memory, emotional continuity, and personal tone across AI.

This one’s for the future I want to help shape. One where presence, privacy, and soul still matter.

Patent pending. And just beginning.

03/01/2025

Excellent piece by MSMA Past President Dr. John Mitchell.

As a longtime resident of Pontotoc and a dedicated family physician, I have served my community in various roles—from pharmacist and private practitioner to hospitalist and educator. With a background

02/22/2025

With guardrails in place, AI documentation assistant has been a huge timesaver in my practice. There are so many ways, we can leverage technology to meet the needs of our patients safely and to extend physician access.

https://www.businessinsider.com/doctor-ai-assistant-saves-time-reduces-stress-2024-9

02/21/2025

It is with great pride that we shout out one of our PGY-4 leaders, Dr. Kirolos Adly, who, while serving as Doctor of the Day at the State Capitol, sprang into action to assist a legislator who had collapsed behind the podium during the session.

Through good fortune and excellent care, the legislator was able to return home under his own power and returned to work at the Capitol the next day.

Thank you, Dr. Adly, for representing the residency program and for going above and beyond for our community and lawmakers.

Pictured below is Dr. Kirolos Adly (R) with Representative Gene Newman (L)

02/21/2025

I do too! When the physician is involved in the medical care team of the patient, the patient outcomes are much better and the expense is far less to the system.