AI in Healthcare July 28, 2021
When assisted by an AI tool designed to organize and display digitized patient referral records, gastroenterologists cut their time to answer relevant clinical questions by 2.3 minutes.
The reduction, seen in a small but illustrative AI research project at Stanford, represented an 18% improvement over standard review times.
What’s more, the physicians’ answer accuracy with the tool was excellent—and on par with their performance when using conventional means of record retrieval.
The development and validation of the EHR assistance system, along with its applicability across healthcare, are described in a study running in JAMA Network Open.
Senior author Sidhartha Sinha, MD, and colleagues prognostically tested their AI system with 12 volunteer GI specialists at their institution.
Sinha and co-researchers asked...
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