ICD10monitor January 12, 2026
Sharon Easterling, MHA, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CPHM

For most of modern healthcare, the medical record was passive. It waited.
It stored information. It was interpreted later by coders, clinical
documentation integrity (CDI) professionals, auditors, and sometimes
attorneys.

The record reflected care, but it did not respond to it.
That reality has changed.

With the rise of generative tools such as ChatGPT and the recent
introduction of healthcare-focused models from ChatGPT Health and
Anthropic Claude, the record no longer sits quietly in the background. It
reads. It analyzes. It highlights gaps. And increasingly, it challenges what
we thought was sufficient.

This shift is not about novelty or speed. It is about visibility.
Artificial intelligence does not create new documentation problems. It
exposes the ones healthcare has tolerated for years. Vague diagnoses.
Missing acuity. Clinical relationships that were assumed but...

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