Medscape November 20, 2019
A new effort to enlist artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the usability of electronic health records (EHRs) and reduce the administrative burden on physicians is starting to bear fruit, but at least one expert considers the effort to be “shortsighted.”
A year into the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) 42-month Health IT Innovation Project, a voice-enabled AI assistant called Suki has cut EHR documentation time by more than 50% in some pilot family practices, Steven Waldren, MD, AAFP vice president and chief medical informatics officer, told Medscape Medical News.
Leading EHR vendors are developing similar enhancements to their products, Waldren said. “There’s a significant amount of [research and development] in this space. We’ve had conversations with Epic and Cerner,...
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