Wednesday 17 July 2019

The Benefits Of Having An AI Medical Scribe

By Eric Scott


It is known that necessity is a prelude to invention. The healthcare industry is one of those that greatly benefited from this. Through these inventions, they have medical equipment that lets them know the condition of the patient. Now, a new invention is being recognized by physicians and that is AI medical scribe.

Paperwork is a nightmare for anyone who works on it. This is the also the case for these healthcare professionals. They have to do administrative work as part of the compliance with law regulations such as HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Innovators have shadowed and observed physicians in order to identify which aspects of the current system needs improvements. The current one digitally records medical reports in real time. It is known as electronic health records or commonly called HER. Reducing the administrative works is the aim of these innovators so physicians can spend more time in looking after their patients.

In their observations, they found out that healthcare professionals still needs to do documentation after office hours despite being burned out from handling patients. The cognitive part of their brain is overused and needs rest after back to back sessions. So they device a software which will help in lessening the burden this task caused them. That way, they can go home and rest in order to prepare for the next day.

Using artificial intelligence, this is a software application system that the helps physicians in taking down information in regard to their findings of their patients. As the name suggests, it writes down the details of the medical consultation. This application aggregates the information so physicians have ease in their documentation.

Voice activation is another feature that innovators add on to it. Physicians would no longer push some buttons on the keyboard and screen just to document the information. Lab results are also uploaded into it in real time. As a result, they only need to do a few voice commands to have the results they need pop up on the screen. They can readily give patients the results and what it means.

It is also programmed to be a learning system. If there is a medical jargon or procedure it does not recognize, it immediately adds it to the data bank along with the corresponding description. It saves the hospital and the physician time because they do not need to update its system regularly like other software.

This benefits them greatly in two areas. First, it saves them time because they do not have to spell out what that particular jargon means or manually input it in the data bank. Second, it gives them and the institution cost savings for there is no need to spend additional money just to have a technician or the company provider upload a system update.

This is really great and useful because it does not interrupt the work the physicians have. They can focus on what is really important and that is their patients. They also do not have to let their patients wait just to get results from diagnostics lab. It can now be done with lesser time on the software. Their productivity and efficiency increases letting them have a successful work.




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