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Artificial Intelligence has been a critical driver in digital healthcare transformation, with digital applications being used to help patients become better decision-makers for their health while driving efficiencies and reducing costs across the healthcare industry.
Fremont, CA: Patient medical records have long been viewed as inflexible, difficult to use, archaic, and costly to configure. However, these records are critical to improving the patient experience throughout their care journey. They provide healthcare professionals with the information needed to help make sound clinical decisions and evaluate care management plans across the entire continuum of care. Other benefits include ensuring accuracy and timeliness of payment for services performed and helping to mitigate malpractice risks.
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Improve productivity
AI tools have recently been developed to help healthcare providers (HCPs) extract clinically-relevant insights from free text housed in medical records or insurance claims. One such tool, Healthcare Natural Language API, released by Google Cloud, generates a structured data representation of the medical knowledge stored in these data sources for downstream analysis and automation.
Accelerate digital health
While many physicians express frustration recording patient medical information electronically – indicating that the time it takes to complete entering data is time lost with their patient – they also think it is the way of the future.
Improve personalized care
AI in medical records can help identify patterns and perform outcome predictions. Subsequently, this information can tailor specific treatments to an individual, even down to what physician may best cater to their needs and outcomes that matter most to them.
Decision support
AI-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools are used to improve care delivery. These tools can analyze large volumes of data to provide diagnostic assistance and treatment guidance and evaluate disease prognosis and progression.
Despite the many advantages of CDS tools, due to the vast number of them, their design needs to be carefully implemented to ensure they do what they are intended to do – Create less work for HCPs and not more. One thing is sure: people from all healthcare industry sectors need to be part of the CDS design and implementation process for this to be successful.
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