Artificial Intelligence EHR System May Speed Up Physician Processes

The EHR optimization includes autocomplete features for clinical terms and auto-populates fields with patient information to increase efficiency among physicians.

The researchers also included a note-taking editor that displays information from the patient’s medical history on a side panel. If a clinician enters a certain condition while recording a patient’s medical information, the EHR tool will automatically pull up information from past records, such as medications and lab values, that are relevant to that condition.

The information is color-coded depending on the category; for example, a medical condition is highlighted in red and medication is highlighted in green, according to the researchers.

EHRs typically house past medical records on separate pages and list medications and lab values alphabetically or chronologically, the press release noted. The researchers’ system displays information that is relevant to whatever the physician is taking notes about, eliminating the need for her to search through data to find what they need.