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Thursday, April 25, 2019

What An AI Medical Scribe Does

By Eric Scott


Necessity is the mother of invention. This holds true as the healthcare industry strives to give the best service it can provide to the community. Recent innovations have paved the way to create an AI medical scribe that is used by physicians today.

Paperwork is a nightmare for anyone who works on it. This is the also the case for these healthcare professionals. They have to do administrative work as part of the compliance with law regulations such as HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Innovators have shadowed and observed physicians in order to identify which aspects of the current system needs improvements. The current one digitally records medical reports in real time. It is known as electronic health records or commonly called HER. Reducing the administrative works is the aim of these innovators so physicians can spend more time in looking after their patients.

In their observations, they found out that healthcare professionals still needs to do documentation after office hours despite being burned out from handling patients. The cognitive part of their brain is overused and needs rest after back to back sessions. So they device a software which will help in lessening the burden this task caused them. That way, they can go home and rest in order to prepare for the next day.

Using artificial intelligence, this is a software application system that the helps physicians in taking down information in regard to their findings of their patients. As the name suggests, it writes down the details of the medical consultation. This application aggregates the information so physicians have ease in their documentation.

Voice activation is another feature that innovators add on to it. Physicians would no longer push some buttons on the keyboard and screen just to document the information. Lab results are also uploaded into it in real time. As a result, they only need to do a few voice commands to have the results they need pop up on the screen. They can readily give patients the results and what it means.

One advantage is that this is a learning system. Meaning, they do not have to update its data bank like the normal computer software regularly. It has an embedded program to recognize the medical jargons they throw along the conversation, even if it is said in short hand or acronym.

This benefits them greatly in two areas. First, it saves them time because they do not have to spell out what that particular jargon means or manually input it in the data bank. Second, it gives them and the institution cost savings for there is no need to spend additional money just to have a technician or the company provider upload a system update.

This is really great and useful because it does not interrupt the work the physicians have. They can focus on what is really important and that is their patients. They also do not have to let their patients wait just to get results from diagnostics lab. It can now be done with lesser time on the software. Their productivity and efficiency increases letting them have a successful work.




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