Health IT Analytics August 8, 2017
Jennifer Bresnick

Artificial intelligence could help “assemble” clinical notes without contributing to electronic health record burnout, researchers suggest.

Healthcare providers still facing frustrations years after switching to electronic health records (EHRs) may soon find some relief from burnout as artificial intelligence moves closer to reality, suggests a viewpoint article published in JMIR Medical Informatics.

Artificial intelligence could help providers assemble and repackage the necessary components of clinical documentation – just like individual, standardized Lego pieces combine to produce an infinite variety of objects – to build notes that accurately reflect a patient encounter or diagnosis.

More intuitive interfaces, coupled with the emerging ability of AI to quickly identify important features of patients and their care, could help providers overcome some of their...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Big Data, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, IoT (Internet of Things), Physician, Primary care, Provider
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