Hospital & Healthcare Management October 3, 2022
Clinical care recording resulted in a high prevalence of text duplication, according to a recent health informatics study, and systemic hazards need systemic interventions to be fixed. An artificial intelligence-based analysis of all inpatient and outpatient notes created within the UPenn Health System from January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2020 was conducted earlier this year by a team of researchers led by academics from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
To determine how much repetition is present in the electronic health record and why, the researchers measured text copied from the same author versus text copied from a different author. 50.1% of the words in the total notes for more than 1.96 million distinct patients...